The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) (Amendment) Order 2024 No. 836


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Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 836

Police, England And Wales

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

Made

29th July 2024

Coming into force

30th July 2024

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54(1)(b) and 154(5)(a) and (b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011( 1).

The Secretary of State has consulted the Electoral Commission in accordance with section 7(1) and (2)(ha) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000( 2).

Citation, commencement 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) (Amendment) Order 2024.

(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(3) In this Order “ the 2024 Order” means the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024( 3).

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

2.—(1) The 2024 Order is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1(4), in the definition of “police area”, after “North Yorkshire” insert “, South Yorkshire( 4)”.

(3) For the table in Schedule 3 (designated police area returning officers in England) substitute the table in Schedule 1 to this Order.

(4) For the table in Schedule 4 (designated police area returning officers in Wales) substitute the table in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Validity of things done and continuity of charges incurred

3.—(1) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to a police area returning officer designated by the 2024 Order before the coming into force of this Order.

(2) Any charges incurred for specified services or specified expenses by a police area returning officer designated for a police area by the 2024 Order before the coming into force of this Order are to be treated as having been incurred by the police area returning officer who is designated for the same police area following the coming into force of this Order for the purpose of each maximum recoverable amount for that police area.

(3) In this article—

maximum recoverable amount” means the amount specified in, as the case may be, column (2), (3) or (4) of the table in Schedule 3 to the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2024( 5);

specified services” and “ specified expenses” have the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2024.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Alex Norris

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

29th July 2024

Article 2(3)

SCHEDULE 1 Designated police area returning officers in England

(1) Name of police area (2) Parliamentary constituency
Avon and Somerset Bath
Bedfordshire Luton South and South Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire Ely and East Cambridgeshire
Cheshire Widnes and Halewood
Cleveland Stockton North
Cumbria Whitehaven and Workington
Derbyshire Derby North
Devon and Cornwall Plymouth Moor View
Dorset Bournemouth East
Durham Bishop Auckland
Essex Colchester
Gloucestershire Gloucester
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southampton Test
Hertfordshire Broxbourne
Humberside Beverley and Holderness
Kent Gravesham
Lancashire Blackburn
Leicestershire Leicester West
Lincolnshire Lincoln
Merseyside Liverpool Riverside
Norfolk Broadland and Fakenham
Northamptonshire Northampton North
Northumbria Sunderland Central
Nottinghamshire Rushcliffe
Staffordshire Burton and Uttoxeter
Suffolk West Suffolk
Surrey Reigate
Sussex Brighton Pavilion
Thames Valley Newbury
Warwickshire North Warwickshire and Bedworth
West Mercia The Wrekin
West Midlands Coventry South
Wiltshire Salisbury

Article 2(4)

SCHEDULE 2 Designated police area returning officers in Wales

(1) Name of police area (2) Parliamentary constituency
Dyfed Powys Ceredigion Preseli
Gwent Caerphilly
North Wales Wrexham
South Wales Aberafan Maesteg

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024 ( S.I. 2024/186) (“ the 2024 Order”).

The 2024 Order designates, under section 54(1)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), the persons who are to be the returning officers for police and crime commissioner elections in the police areas named in Schedules 3 and 4 to that Order.

Article 2 of this Order amends the 2024 Order to reflect changes to the parliamentary constituencies following the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023 ( S.I. 2023/1230), which takes effect fully on the dissolution of parliament on 30th May 2024.

Article 3 provides that this Order does not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to a police area returning officer designated by the 2024 Order before the coming into force of this Order. It also provides that any charges incurred before this Order came into force for specified services or specified expenses by a police area returning officer designated by the 2024 Order are to be treated as having been incurred by the police area returning officer designated for the same police area following the coming into force of this Order for the purpose of each maximum recoverable amount for that police area.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

( 1)

2011 c. 13; section 54(1)(b) was amended by S.I. 2015/1376, 2016/997and 2021/1265. Section 154(5) was amended by S.I. 2014/268and 2021/1265.

( 2)

2000 c. 41. Section 7(2)(ha) was inserted by paragraph 11 of Schedule 10 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

( 4)

The functions of a police and crime commissioner in respect of South Yorkshire have been transferred to the mayor of the South Yorkshire Combined Authority by S.I. 2024/414. 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 South Yorkshire Combined Authority.


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