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3.—(1) This article applies where—
(a)the Secretary of State has provided by order under section 4A(1) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004(1) (power to provide for police and crime commissioner to be fire and rescue authority) for the person who is for the time being the police and crime commissioner for a particular police area to be for the time being the fire and rescue authority for that area, and
(b)an election of the police and crime commissioner and fire and rescue authority for that area is held.
(2) Where this article applies, the forms listed in paragraph (3) must be used in any election with the following amendments—
(a)wherever the words “Police and Crime” appear, after “Police”, insert “, Fire”;
(b)except in the third bullet point in Form 7, wherever the words “police and crime” appear, after “police”, insert “, fire”.
(3) Those forms are—
(a)the following forms set out in Part 4 of Schedule 2 to the 2012 Order (absent voting in PCC elections)(2)—
(i)Form 2 (postal voting statement where PCC election taken alone);
(ii)Form 4 (postal voting statement where polls are combined but proceedings on issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are not combined);
(iii)Form 5 (completed statement of number of postal ballot papers issued);
(b)the following forms set out in Part 8 of Schedule 3 to the 2012 Order—
(i)Form 6 (nomination of candidates) in English;
(ii)Form 7 (consent to nomination);
(iii)Form 8A (ballot paper: three or more candidates);
(iv)Form 8B (ballot paper: two candidates only);
(v)Form 11 (official poll card);
(vi)Form 12 (official postal poll card);
(vii)Form 13 (official proxy poll card);
(viii)Form 14 (official postal proxy poll card);
(ix)Form 17 (certificate as to employment on duty on the day of the poll);
(x)Form 18 (declaration to be made by companion of a voter with disabilities).
2004 c. 21. Section 4A was inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3).
Part 4 was amended by S.I. 2014/921.
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