The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012

Attendance at the central calculation U.K.

58.—(1) The police area returning officer—

(a) must make arrangements for the making of the calculation under rule 59 in the presence of the election agents, and

(b) must give to those agents notice in writing of the time and place at which the calculation will begin.

(2) No person other than—

(a) the police area returning officer and the officer's clerks;

(b) the local returning officers and a clerk chosen by each of them;

(c) the candidates and one person chosen by each of them;

(d) the election agents;

(e) persons who are entitled to attend by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the 2000 Act,

may be present at a calculation, unless permitted by the police area returning officer to attend.

(3) A person not entitled to attend a calculation must not be permitted to do so by the police area returning officer unless the officer—

(a) is satisfied that the efficiency of the calculation will not be impeded, and

(b) has either consulted the election agents or thought it impracticable to do so.