Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

50 Ordinary elections E+W

(1) An election of police and crime commissioners for all police areas (an “ordinary election”) is to be held—

(a) in 2012;

(b) in each subsequent fourth year.

(2) The poll at the ordinary election of police and crime commissioners in 2012 is to be held on 15 November 2012.

(3) The poll at an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners in any year after 2012 is to be held on [F1 the first Thursday in May] in the year of the election.

(4) But, if the Secretary of State F2 ... so specifies in an order, the poll at an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners in any year after 2012 is to be held on such day in the year of the election as may be specified in the order.

(5) An order under subsection (4)—

(a) may not specify, as the day of a poll, a day which is before [F3 the first Thursday in May] in the year of the election;

(b) may not be made within the period of six months ending with [F4 the first Thursday in May] in the year of the election (or the first of the elections) to which the order relates.

F5 (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7) The term of office of a person elected as a police and crime commissioner at an ordinary election—

(a) begins with the seventh day after the day of the poll at the election, and

(b) ends with the sixth day after the day of the poll at the next ordinary election of police and crime commissioners.

(8) Subsection (7) is subject to any provision of or made under this or any other Act relating to the appointment or election of police and crime commissioners or their ceasing to hold office.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 50(3) substituted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), ss. 8(2), 71(4) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(b)

F2 Words in s. 50(4) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 22(2)(a) (with art. 12)

F3 Words in s. 50(5)(a) substituted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), ss. 8(3)(a), 71(4) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(b)

F4 Words in s. 50(5)(b) substituted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), ss. 8(3)(b), 71(4) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(b)

F5 S. 50(6) omitted (1.4.2018) by virtue of Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), ss. 8(4), 71(4) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 50-61 excluded (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/470), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 21(b)

C2 S. 50(1)(b)(7)(b): power to exclude conferred by 2009 c. 20, s. 107F(5)(6) (as inserted (28.1.2016 for specified purposes) by Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1), ss. 4(1), 25(2))

C3 S. 50(1)(b) excluded (30.3.2016) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Election of Mayor with Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/448), arts. 1, 4(3)

C4 S. 50(4) functions to be exercisable concurrently with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (12.8.2015) by The Transfer of Functions (Police and Crime Commissioner Elections) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1526), arts. 1(2), 3(1)(2)(a) (with arts. 3(3), 4)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 50 in force at 25.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1129, art. 2(b)