These Regulations provide for the time when, and manner and form in which, accounts are to be submitted by returning officers for police and crime commissioner elections.

Regulations 3 and 4 require the submission of an account within 9 months of the day on which the result of the police and crime commissioner election is declared.

Regulations 5 and 6 make provision about the form in which the accounts are to be submitted and the declaration and supporting documents to be submitted with them.

Regulation 7 makes amendments that are consequential to these Regulations.

Regulation 8 revokes the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) Regulations 2012, the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2021.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.