Guidance for Petition Officers

This section provides guidance on the delivery of the petition. In practice many of the arrangements you need to make to administer the petition will be similar to those for delivering an election.

This section includes information about setting up signing places, the daily verification of signing totals and closing the petition.

Once a recall petition is opened, you must make it available for signing for 6 weeks from the designated start of the signing period.1  

A recall petition can be signed in person at any of the designated signing places, or by post or by proxy.2

You will need to make arrangements for the signing places to be set up, equipped and staffed, as well as for people to sign the petition by post or proxy.