The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024

Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) This Order extends to England and Wales.

(3) This Order does not apply in respect of any election for which the date of poll, as specified in the notice of election published in accordance with rule 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012(1), is on or before 1st May 2024.

(4) In this Order—

“the 2011 Act” means the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011;

“police area” means a police area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 (police areas outside London)(2), other than Greater Manchester(3), North Yorkshire(4) and West Yorkshire(5).

(1)

S.I. 2012/1917, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(2)

1996 c. 16; Schedule 1 was amended by section 129(b) to (d) of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50) and by S.I.s 1997/1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1849, 1850, 1855, 1857, 2009/119 and 2022/790. It is prospectively amended by section 129(a) of the Police Act 1997 from a date and time to be appointed.

(3)

The functions of a police and crime commissioner in respect of Greater Manchester have been transferred to the mayor of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority by S.I. 2017/470. See paragraph 21(b) and (d) of Schedule 2, the effect of which is to remove the requirement to designate both a police area returning officer under section 54(1)(b) of the 2011 Act and a local authority for the purposes of section 75(1) of that Act in respect of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

(4)

The functions of a police and crime commissioner in respect of North Yorkshire have been transferred to the mayor of the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority by S.I. 2023/1432. See paragraph 21 (b) and (d) of Schedule 6, the effect of which is to remove the requirement to designate both a police area returning officer under section 54(1)(b) of the 2011 Act and a local authority for the purposes of section 75(1) of that Act in respect of the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority.

(5)

The functions of a police and crime commissioner in respect of West Yorkshire have been transferred to the mayor of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority by S.I. 2021/112. See paragraph 21(b) and (d) of Schedule 6, the effect of which is to remove the requirement to designate both a police area returning officer under section 54(1)(b) of the 2011 Act and a local authority for the purposes of section 75(1) of that Act in respect of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.