The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

27.  In section 62 (appointment of acting commissioner)—

(a) for subsection (1), substitute—

“(1) The police and crime panel must appoint a person to exercise the Mayor’s PCC functions (the “acting commissioner”) if the Mayor is suspended from the exercise of PCC functions in accordance with section 30.”;

(b) in subsection (2), for “member of the police and crime commissioner’s staff”, substitute “member of staff of the Combined Authority deployed wholly or partly in relation to the Mayor’s PCC functions or the deputy mayor for policing and crime”;

(c) after subsection (2), insert—

“(2A) The police and crime panel may not appoint as acting commissioner any person appointed as a deputy mayor under section 107C of the 2009 Act.”;

(d) omit subsection (3);

(e) for subsection (5), substitute—

“(5) Any property or rights vested in the Combined Authority in relation to the Mayor’s PCC functions can be dealt with by the acting commissioner.”;

(f) omit subsection (6)(c);

(g) in subsection (7)—

(i) omit “incapacitated or”;

(ii) omit “(c) or”;

(h) omit subsection (8).