Public Notice of Petition to Remove the MP for Brecon and Radnorshire Chris Davies

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Public notice of petition to remove the MP for Brecon and Radnorshire Chris Davies

Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Notice of Petition

There will be a petition to decide whether Chris Davies, the MP for Brecon and Radnorshire should lose his seat as an MP and a by-election held to decide who would be the MP for that constituency.

The petition has been started because Chris Davies, MP has been convicted of an offence under section 10 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (an offence of providing false/misleading information for a parliamentary allowances claim and also of a second offence of attempting to provide such information), and ordered to pay a fine of £1,500 and has been given a community order requiring the completion of 50 hours of unpaid work within the next 12 months.

Petition signing period: 9am on Thursday, 9 May to 5pm Thursday, 20 June 2019.

Constituency: Brecon and Radnorshire

The designated petition signing places are located at:

• County Hall, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5LG • Neuadd Brycheiniog, Cambrian Way, Brecon, LD3 7HR • Presteigne Library, Market Hall, Presteigne, LD8 2AD • Ystradgynlais Library, Temperance Street, Ystradgynlais, SA9 1JJ • Council Chamber, Broad Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5BX • Clarence Hall House, Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, NP8 1BN

These locations will be open for signing:

• Monday, 9am to 5pm (except spring bank holiday Monday) • Tuesday, 8am to 5pm • Wednesday, 9am to 8pm • Thursday, 9am to 5pm • Friday, 9am to 5pm

A person is eligible to sign the petition if they are a registered parliamentary elector for the constituency and aged 18 or over (or the date of their 18th birthday is before the end of the signing period).

All registered parliamentary electors will be written to individually advising them of the signing procedure and which signing place they have been allocated to. Parliamentary electors who are currently registered to vote by post will receive their signing sheet by post.

New applications to sign the petition by POST must be received by no later than 5pm on Wednesday, 5 June 2019.

New applications to sign the petition by PROXY must be received by no later than 5pm on Wednesday, 12 June 2019.

Publication of 10% threshold

After receiving the Speaker's notice under section 5 of the Recall of MP's Act 2015 the Petition Officer herewith gives public notice of:

(a) the number of persons who are entitled to sign the petition as 53,032

(b) the number of persons who would need to sign the petition for the petition to be successful in accordance with section 14 of the Recall of MP's Act 2015(a) (determination of whether recall petition successful) as 5,303

Dr Caroline Turner, Petition Officer

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