9. After regulation 2 insert—
2A.—(1) Where paragraph (3) of regulation 2 applies, the local returning officer for a voting area for the purposes of the PCC election is to be the local returning officer who is the constituency returning officer for that voting area for the purposes of the Assembly election; and a reference in these Regulations to a “local returning officer” is to be construed accordingly.
(2) In paragraph (1) “constituency returning officer” means the constituency returning officer for an Assembly constituency by virtue of article 18 of the 2007 Order(1).”
A constituency returning officer is the person appointed under section 35(1A) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) to be the returning officer for councillors of a county or county borough situated wholly or partly within the Assembly constituency and, where there is more than one, for the time being designated by Welsh Ministers as constituency returning officer.