The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) (No.2) Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2084

Police, England And Wales

The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) (No.2) Order 2012

Made

9th August 2012

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

This Order is made by the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 75(1) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011(1).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) (No.2) Order 2012.

(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(3) “Police area” means a police area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996(2) (police areas outside London).

Revocation

2.  The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) Order 2012(3) is revoked.

Designation of police area returning officers

3.—(1) This article designates for the purposes of section 75(1) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011(4) (the appropriate officer) a local authority for each police area in England and each police area in Wales.

(2) In respect of a police area in England listed in column 1 of Schedule 1, the designated local authority is to be the local authority listed in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to the name of the police area.

(3) In respect of a police area in Wales listed in column 1 of Schedule 2, the designated local authority is to be the local authority listed in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to the name of the police area.

Nick Herbert

Minister of State

Home Office

9th August 2012

SCHEDULES

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE 1 Appropriate officers: England

Column 1 Name of police area in England	Column 2 Local authority for which the head of paid service is the appropriate officer
Avon & Somerset	Bristol City Council
Bedfordshire	Luton Borough Council
Cambridgeshire	East Cambridgeshire District Council
Cheshire	Halton Borough Council
Cleveland	Stockton Borough Council
Cumbria	South Lakeland District Council
Derbyshire	Amber Valley Borough Council
Devon and Cornwall	Cornwall Council
Dorset	Borough of Poole Council
Durham	Durham County Council
Essex	Chelmsford Borough Council
Gloucestershire	Stroud District Council
Greater Manchester	Manchester City Council
Hampshire	Southampton City Council
Hertfordshire	Broxbourne Borough Council
Humberside	East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Kent	Dover District Council
Lancashire	Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Leicestershire	North West Leicestershire District Council
Lincolnshire	Lincoln Council
Merseyside	Liverpool City Council
Norfolk	Norwich City Council
North Yorkshire	City of York Council
Northamptonshire	Kettering Borough Council
Northumbria	Sunderland City Council
Nottinghamshire	Rushcliffe Borough Council
South Yorkshire	Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Staffordshire	Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Suffolk	Suffolk Coastal District Council
Surrey	Guildford Borough Council
Sussex	Crawley Borough Council
Thames Valley	Aylesbury Vale District Council
Warwickshire	Stratford on Avon District Council
West Mercia	Shropshire Council
West Midlands	Birmingham City Council
West Yorkshire	Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Wiltshire	Swindon Borough Council

Article 3(3)

SCHEDULE 2 Appropriate officers: Wales

Column 1 Name of police area in Wales	Column 2 Local authority for which the head of paid service is the appropriate officer
Dyfed-Powys	Pembrokeshire County Council
Gwent	Newport City Council
North Wales	Flintshire County Council
South Wales	Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision in relation to England and Wales in connection with elections and vacancies affecting the office of police and crime commissioner under Chapter 6 of Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13) (“the 2011 Act”). Section 75(2) of the 2011 Act provides that for each police area, other the metropolitan police district and the City of London police area, the head of paid service of the designated local authority is to be the “appropriate officer” on whom functions are conferred under Chapter 6 of Part 1. This Order includes provision for the police areas of Lancashire, Sussex and Gwent which was omitted from the Order that is revoked by article 2 of this Order and it makes changes to designations in relation to the police areas of Devon and Cornwall, Suffolk and South Wales.

Article 2 revokes the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1963).

Article 3(2) and Schedule 1 designate the local authority for each police area in England apart from the metropolitan police district and the City of London police area.

Article 3(3) and Schedule 2 designate appropriate officers for police areas in Wales.

(1)

2011 c.13.

(2)

1996 c.16.

(3)

S.I. 2012/1963.

(4)

Subsection (2) of section 75 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 defines “appropriate officer” for the purposes of Chapter 6 of Part 1 of that Act by reference to the local authority designated under subsection (1) of that section.