The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2378

Police, England And Wales

The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2012

Made

12th September 2012

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 55(1) and 154(5) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011(1), makes this Order with the consent of the Treasury(2).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2012 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“local returning officer” has the meaning given in section 54(5) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011;

“police area” means a police area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996(3) (police areas outside London);

“police area returning officer”, in relation to any police area, means the person for the time being designated by an order made by virtue of section 54(1)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 as the returning officer for that police area;

“relevant election or referendum” means—

(a)

an election in England for the return of an elected mayor as defined by section 9H(1) of the Local Government Act 2000(4) (elected mayors etc);

(b)

a referendum in England under Part 1A of that Act(5) (arrangements with respect to local authority governance in England);

“voting area” has the same meaning as in article 2(2) of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012(6).

Charges for services and expenses of local returning officers

Local returning officers: overall maximum recoverable amount

3.—(1) In respect of a local returning officer, the overall maximum recoverable amount for each voting area is the amount listed in column 4 of the table in Schedule 1.

(2) But where, in a voting area listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 2, the poll at the ordinary election of police and crime commissioners in 2012 is taken together with the poll at a relevant election or referendum, the overall maximum recoverable amount for that voting area is the amount listed in column 4 of the table in Schedule 2(7).

Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

4.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by a local returning officer in respect of the services specified in paragraph (3) must not exceed the amount listed for each voting area in column 2 of the table in Schedule 1.

(2) But where, in a voting area listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 2, the poll at the ordinary election of police and crime commissioners in 2012 is taken together with the poll at a relevant election or referendum, the total of the charges recoverable by the local returning officer in respect of the services specified in paragraph (3) must not exceed the amount listed for that voting area in column 2 of the table in Schedule 2.

(3) The services specified in this paragraph are—

(a) conducting the poll;

(b) discharging the local returning officer’s duties at the election; and

(c) making arrangements for the election.

Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

5.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by a local returning officer in respect of the expenses specified in paragraph (3) must not exceed the amount listed for each voting area in column 3 of the table in Schedule 1.

(2) But where, in a voting area listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 2, the poll at the ordinary election of police and crime commissioners in 2012 is taken together with the poll at a relevant election or referendum, the total of the charges recoverable by the local returning officer in respect of the expenses specified in paragraph (3) must not exceed the amount listed for that voting area in column 3 of the table in Schedule 2.

(3) The expenses specified in this paragraph are—

(a) the appointment and payment of persons to assist the local returning officer;

(b) travel and overnight subsistence for the local returning officer and any person appointed to assist the local returning officer;

(c) printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;

(d) printing, producing or purchasing postal vote stationery;

(e) printing or otherwise producing and arranging for the delivery of poll cards;

(f) printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices and any other documents required by any enactment for or in connection with the police and crime commissioner election;

(g) renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;

(h) providing and transporting equipment;

(i) providing information and communications technology equipment and software and associated costs;

(j) providing security, including any necessary secure storage of ballot boxes, ballot papers and verification documents;

(k) conducting the verification of ballot paper accounts and the count;

(l) providing and receiving training; and

(m) providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items.

Charges for services and expenses of police area returning officers

Police area returning officers: overall maximum recoverable amount

6.  In respect of a police area returning officer, the overall maximum recoverable amount for each police area is the amount listed in column 4 of the table in Schedule 3.

Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

7.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by a police area returning officer in respect of the services specified in paragraph (2) must not exceed the amount listed for each police area in column 2 of the table in Schedule 3.

(2) The services specified in this paragraph are—

(a) discharging the police area returning officer’s duties at the election; and

(b) making arrangements for the election.

Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

8.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by a police area returning officer in respect of the expenses specified in paragraph (2) and the expenses specified in paragraph (3) must not exceed the amount listed for each police area in column 3 of the table in Schedule 3.

(2) The expenses specified in this paragraph are—

(a) the appointment and payment of persons to assist the police area returning officer;

(b) travel and overnight subsistence for the police area returning officer and any person appointed to assist the police area returning officer;

(c) the costs of the nomination process;

(d) the costs of any legal advice or translation required in connection with election addresses of candidates;

(e) printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;

(f) printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices required by any enactment for or in connection with the police and crime commissioner election;

(g) renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;

(h) providing and transporting equipment;

(i) providing security;

(j) conducting the count;

(k) providing training; and

(l) providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items.

(3) The expenses specified in this paragraph are those incurred in discharging the police area returning officer’s functions under regulation 7 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012(8) (encouraging participation in a police and crime commissioner election).

Charges at uncontested elections

Overall maximum recoverable amount at an uncontested election

9.  Articles 3 to 8 do not apply at an uncontested election and, instead—

(a) the overall maximum recoverable amount for each voting area is £1,750.

(b) the overall maximum recoverable amount for each police area is £350.

Damian Green

Minister of State

Home Office

10th September 2012

We consent to this order

James Duddridge

Brooks Newmark

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

12th September 2012

SCHEDULES

Articles 3(1), 4(1) and 5(1)

SCHEDULE 1 Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas

1 Voting area	2 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified services	3 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified expenses	4 Overall maximum recoverable amount
ENGLAND
Adur	£2,500	£78,507	£81,007
Allerdale	£3,538	£186,813	£190,351
Amber Valley	£4,662	£189,506	£194,169
Arun	£5,437	£179,173	£184,610
Ashfield	£4,360	£160,338	£164,698
Ashford	£4,239	£175,909	£180,148
Aylesbury Vale	£6,398	£264,829	£271,227
Babergh	£3,354	£144,694	£148,048
Barnsley	£8,549	£323,436	£331,984
Barrow-in-Furness	£2,529	£82,027	£84,556
Basildon	£6,184	£214,704	£220,889
Basingstoke and Deane	£5,973	£234,927	£240,900
Bassetlaw	£4,078	£182,814	£186,893
Bath and North East Somerset UA	£6,530	£235,988	£242,519
Bedford UA	£5,757	£247,977	£253,734
Birmingham	£36,222	£1,053,156	£1,089,378
Blaby	£3,512	£105,593	£109,105
Blackburn with Darwen UA	£4,985	£200,454	£205,439
Blackpool UA	£5,441	£206,046	£211,487
Bolsover	£2,734	£104,018	£106,752
Bolton	£9,388	£343,835	£353,223
Boston	£2,500	£88,050	£90,550
Bournemouth UA	£6,692	£209,112	£215,804
Bracknell Forest UA	£4,072	£132,910	£136,981
Bradford	£16,174	£590,613	£606,787
Braintree	£5,300	£205,255	£210,555
Breckland	£4,701	£190,230	£194,930
Brentwood	£2,730	£124,972	£127,702
Brighton and Hove UA	£9,742	£324,416	£334,157
Bristol, City of UA	£15,314	£455,358	£470,672
Broadland	£4,602	£158,376	£162,978
Bromsgrove	£3,486	£126,687	£130,173
Broxbourne	£3,361	£123,605	£126,966
Broxtowe	£4,035	£170,550	£174,584
Burnley	£3,205	£117,050	£120,255
Bury	£6,876	£271,645	£278,521
Calderdale	£7,073	£285,613	£292,686
Cambridge	£4,313	£132,431	£136,744
Cannock Chase	£3,601	£145,735	£149,336
Canterbury	£5,221	£180,077	£185,299
Carlisle	£4,061	£202,796	£206,857
Castle Point	£3,179	£97,052	£100,232
Central Bedfordshire UA	£9,491	£358,042	£367,533
Charnwood	£6,380	£188,467	£194,848
Chelmsford	£6,109	£191,890	£197,999
Cheltenham	£4,247	£140,735	£144,982
Cherwell	£5,085	£213,394	£218,479
Cheshire East UA	£13,841	£532,740	£546,581
Cheshire West and Chester UA	£11,894	£444,789	£456,684
Chesterfield	£3,863	£149,138	£153,002
Chichester	£4,340	£162,248	£166,588
Chiltern	£3,453	£121,545	£124,997
Chorley	£3,860	£170,917	£174,777
Christchurch	£2,500	£71,169	£73,669
Colchester	£6,040	£218,379	£224,419
Copeland	£2,655	£134,941	£137,596
Corby	£2,500	£81,512	£84,012
Cornwall UA	£19,923	£825,542	£845,465
Cotswold	£3,269	£167,132	£170,401
County Durham UA	£19,461	£860,072	£879,533
Coventry	£11,283	£376,160	£387,444
Craven	£2,500	£103,866	£106,366
Crawley	£3,721	£122,980	£126,701
Dacorum	£5,224	£186,157	£191,380
Darlington UA	£3,804	£154,731	£158,535
Dartford	£3,430	£159,861	£163,290
Daventry	£2,897	£131,664	£134,561
Derby UA	£8,680	£266,516	£275,196
Derbyshire Dales	£2,750	£142,116	£144,866
Doncaster	£10,645	£438,487	£449,132
Dover	£4,026	£143,549	£147,575
Dudley	£11,605	£403,217	£414,823
East Cambridgeshire	£3,052	£120,015	£123,067
East Devon	£4,947	£201,897	£206,844
East Dorset	£3,411	£123,339	£126,750
East Hampshire	£4,300	£155,083	£159,384
East Hertfordshire	£4,946	£200,377	£205,323
East Lindsey	£4,999	£223,700	£228,699
East Northamptonshire	£3,154	£145,071	£148,224
East Riding of Yorkshire UA	£12,702	£503,225	£515,926
East Staffordshire	£4,140	£178,001	£182,141
Eastbourne	£3,492	£112,371	£115,864
Eastleigh	£4,617	£161,059	£165,676
Eden	£2,500	£114,101	£116,601
Elmbridge	£4,599	£201,470	£206,069
Epping Forest	£4,704	£198,153	£202,857
Epsom and Ewell	£2,701	£106,891	£109,592
Erewash	£4,075	£151,027	£155,102
Exeter	£4,273	£142,154	£146,427
Fareham	£4,250	£145,319	£149,570
Fenland	£3,594	£118,493	£122,087
Forest Heath	£2,500	£78,662	£81,162
Forest of Dean	£3,150	£133,819	£136,969
Fylde	£2,903	£112,217	£115,120
Gateshead	£7,044	£326,836	£333,880
Gedling	£4,193	£154,332	£158,525
Gloucester	£4,387	£159,343	£163,730
Gosport	£2,962	£100,978	£103,940
Gravesham	£3,490	£119,591	£123,081
Great Yarmouth	£3,392	£113,374	£116,765
Guildford	£5,022	£188,928	£193,950
Halton UA	£4,482	£165,104	£169,586
Hambleton	£3,372	£157,304	£160,677
Harborough	£3,146	£132,834	£135,980
Harlow	£2,960	£83,147	£86,107
Harrogate	£5,672	£269,903	£275,576
Hart	£3,344	£113,860	£117,204
Hartlepool UA	£3,352	£123,013	£126,365
Hastings	£3,045	£96,617	£99,662
Havant	£4,465	£139,443	£143,908
Herefordshire, County of UA	£6,719	£294,359	£301,078
Hertsmere	£3,493	£158,609	£162,102
High Peak	£3,455	£149,821	£153,277
Hinckley and Bosworth	£4,022	£140,797	£144,820
Horsham	£4,879	£165,478	£170,357
Huntingdonshire	£5,891	£217,354	£223,245
Hyndburn	£2,903	£111,507	£114,411
Ipswich	£4,663	£168,926	£173,589
Isle of Wight UA	£5,324	£172,277	£177,601
Isles of Scilly UA	£2,500	£9,948	£12,448
Kettering	£3,410	£143,049	£146,459
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk	£5,575	£206,107	£211,682
Kingston upon Hull, City of UA	£8,973	£280,275	£289,249
Kirklees	£14,790	£506,863	£521,653
Knowsley	£5,332	£189,724	£195,056
Lancaster	£5,172	£185,317	£190,489
Leeds	£26,283	£939,392	£965,676
Leicester UA	£11,174	£346,272	£357,446
Lewes	£3,555	£148,121	£151,676
Lichfield	£3,793	£169,913	£173,706
Lincoln	£3,098	£117,851	£120,950
Liverpool	£15,253	£476,664	£491,917
Luton UA	£6,575	£208,249	£214,823
Maidstone	£5,641	£193,325	£198,966
Maldon	£2,500	£80,770	£83,270
Malvern Hills	£2,835	£119,138	£121,973
Manchester	£17,513	£597,030	£614,543
Mansfield	£3,892	£143,709	£147,601
Medway UA	£9,176	£295,812	£304,988
Melton	£2,500	£90,632	£93,132
Mendip	£4,102	£206,474	£210,576
Mid Devon	£2,872	£149,257	£152,129
Mid Suffolk	£3,650	£167,276	£170,926
Mid Sussex	£4,966	£162,187	£167,152
Middlesbrough UA	£4,819	£168,227	£173,046
Milton Keynes UA	£8,479	£289,286	£297,765
Mole Valley	£3,204	£156,794	£159,998
New Forest	£6,826	£230,682	£237,508
Newark and Sherwood	£4,101	£190,755	£194,856
Newcastle upon Tyne	£9,649	£404,971	£414,620
Newcastle-under-Lyme	£4,654	£182,166	£186,820
North Devon	£3,611	£158,170	£161,781
North Dorset	£2,511	£112,852	£115,363
North East Derbyshire	£3,773	£149,064	£152,838
North East Lincolnshire UA	£5,586	£206,995	£212,581
North Hertfordshire	£4,687	£179,768	£184,454
North Kesteven	£3,979	£159,509	£163,489
North Lincolnshire UA	£6,058	£249,668	£255,727
North Norfolk	£3,918	£184,758	£188,676
North Somerset UA	£7,590	£271,905	£279,495
North Tyneside	£7,504	£313,951	£321,455
North Warwickshire	£2,500	£97,400	£99,900
North West Leicestershire	£3,477	£133,518	£136,995
Northampton	£7,456	£281,324	£288,779
Northumberland UA	£11,709	£486,318	£498,027
Norwich	£4,879	£170,859	£175,739
Nottingham UA	£9,848	£331,006	£340,854
Nuneaton and Bedworth	£4,554	£165,015	£169,569
Oadby and Wigston	£2,500	£67,168	£69,668
Oldham	£7,604	£266,919	£274,523
Oxford	£5,319	£169,337	£174,657
Pendle	£3,238	£129,420	£132,658
Peterborough UA	£6,395	£208,440	£214,835
Plymouth UA	£8,595	£342,693	£351,288
Poole UA	£5,517	£201,050	£206,567
Portsmouth UA	£7,084	£210,038	£217,122
Preston	£4,752	£178,728	£183,480
Purbeck	£2,500	£78,194	£80,694
Reading UA	£5,615	£185,216	£190,831
Redcar and Cleveland UA	£5,038	£184,430	£189,468
Redditch	£3,033	£106,255	£109,288
Reigate and Banstead	£4,877	£196,551	£201,429
Ribble Valley	£2,500	£95,055	£97,555
Richmondshire	£2,500	£92,071	£94,571
Rochdale	£7,580	£263,602	£271,182
Rochford	£3,117	£108,586	£111,704
Rossendale	£2,527	£91,857	£94,384
Rother	£3,436	£130,819	£134,255
Rotherham	£9,221	£381,616	£390,838
Rugby	£3,574	£146,399	£149,974
Runnymede	£2,926	£100,060	£102,986
Rushcliffe	£4,122	£183,973	£188,095
Rushmoor	£3,140	£103,543	£106,682
Rutland UA	£2,500	£63,450	£65,950
Ryedale	£2,500	£124,546	£127,046
Salford	£8,216	£325,868	£334,083
Sandwell	£10,828	£370,582	£381,411
Scarborough	£4,089	£159,712	£163,801
Sedgemoor	£4,297	£163,546	£167,843
Sefton	£9,808	£320,393	£330,201
Selby	£3,064	£140,061	£143,125
Sevenoaks	£4,217	£202,487	£206,704
Sheffield	£18,891	£607,205	£626,096
Shepway	£3,902	£150,849	£154,751
Shropshire UA	£10,884	£458,808	£469,692
Slough UA	£4,481	£151,688	£156,168
Solihull	£7,514	£237,108	£244,623
South Bucks	£2,500	£104,662	£107,162
South Cambridgeshire	£5,307	£216,234	£221,541
South Derbyshire	£3,461	£138,275	£141,737
South Gloucestershire UA	£9,835	£355,107	£364,942
South Hams	£3,265	£145,594	£148,859
South Holland	£3,354	£122,673	£126,027
South Kesteven	£4,999	£207,287	£212,286
South Lakeland	£3,970	£175,271	£179,241
South Norfolk	£4,681	£203,768	£208,449
South Northamptonshire	£3,260	£144,465	£147,725
South Oxfordshire	£4,901	£179,127	£184,028
South Ribble	£4,098	£155,571	£159,668
South Somerset	£6,124	£278,403	£284,527
South Staffordshire	£4,111	£154,061	£158,172
South Tyneside	£5,525	£245,550	£251,074
Southampton UA	£8,266	£262,666	£270,931
Southend-on-Sea UA	£6,174	£201,949	£208,122
Spelthorne	£3,534	£147,879	£151,413
St Albans	£5,024	£166,372	£171,396
St. Edmundsbury	£3,936	£177,874	£181,809
St. Helens	£6,595	£245,760	£252,355
Stafford	£4,666	£218,001	£222,667
Staffordshire Moorlands	£3,731	£161,032	£164,763
Stevenage	£3,008	£120,023	£123,031
Stockport	£10,551	£381,230	£391,781
Stockton-on-Tees UA	£6,791	£264,959	£271,750
Stoke-on-Trent UA	£9,041	£319,483	£328,524
Stratford-on-Avon	£4,605	£210,450	£215,055
Stroud	£4,354	£179,510	£183,863
Suffolk Coastal	£4,616	£197,826	£202,442
Sunderland	£10,413	£434,711	£445,124
Surrey Heath	£3,105	£102,828	£105,933
Swale	£4,632	£154,581	£159,213
Swindon UA	£7,644	£254,669	£262,313
Tameside	£8,010	£314,823	£322,833
Tamworth	£2,773	£108,725	£111,498
Tandridge	£2,946	£132,283	£135,229
Taunton Deane	£4,045	£169,312	£173,356
Teignbridge	£4,887	£187,201	£192,089
Telford and Wrekin UA	£5,897	£238,832	£244,730
Tendring	£5,199	£193,703	£198,902
Test Valley	£4,384	£174,532	£178,916
Tewkesbury	£3,131	£121,304	£124,435
Thanet	£4,506	£138,549	£143,055
Three Rivers	£3,197	£143,449	£146,646
Thurrock UA	£5,340	£222,483	£227,823
Tonbridge and Malling	£4,289	£146,553	£150,842
Torbay UA	£5,001	£165,866	£170,866
Torridge	£2,500	£118,428	£120,928
Trafford	£7,644	£329,591	£337,236
Tunbridge Wells	£3,873	£130,638	£134,511
Uttlesford	£2,942	£129,301	£132,244
Vale of White Horse	£4,504	£173,993	£178,497
Wakefield	£12,134	£410,774	£422,908
Walsall	£9,352	£329,301	£338,653
Warrington UA	£7,450	£275,786	£283,236
Warwick	£4,776	£198,738	£203,514
Watford	£3,249	£132,284	£135,533
Waveney	£4,289	£164,628	£168,917
Waverley	£4,412	£163,752	£168,164
Wealden	£5,620	£201,753	£207,372
Wellingborough	£2,661	£109,415	£112,076
Welwyn Hatfield	£3,801	£129,287	£133,088
West Berkshire UA	£5,386	£242,854	£248,240
West Devon	£2,500	£104,923	£107,423
West Dorset	£3,847	£174,618	£178,465
West Lancashire	£4,157	£183,988	£188,145
West Lindsey	£3,456	£161,896	£165,352
West Oxfordshire	£3,833	£152,436	£156,269
West Somerset	£2,500	£69,363	£71,863
Weymouth and Portland	£2,500	£88,579	£91,079
Wigan	£11,575	£402,830	£414,406
Wiltshire UA	£16,863	£681,752	£698,614
Winchester	£4,364	£169,677	£174,041
Windsor and Maidenhead UA	£5,058	£179,337	£184,394
Wirral	£11,362	£346,053	£357,415
Woking	£3,474	£119,638	£123,112
Wokingham UA	£5,746	£201,027	£206,773
Wolverhampton	£8,483	£318,975	£327,458
Worcester	£3,644	£143,196	£146,840
Worthing	£3,866	£115,775	£119,642
Wychavon	£4,422	£191,715	£196,137
Wycombe	£5,936	£208,706	£214,642
Wyre	£4,075	£167,315	£171,390
Wyre Forest	£3,728	£121,871	£125,599
York UA	£7,384	£248,572	£255,956
WALES
Blaenau Gwent	£2,569	£218,149	£220,718
Bridgend	£4,960	£177,987	£182,947
Caerphilly	£6,169	£483,710	£489,879
Cardiff	£12,107	£459,970	£472,077
Carmarthenshire	£6,698	£329,528	£336,226
Ceredigion	£2,819	£127,584	£130,404
Conwy	£4,400	£163,075	£167,475
Denbighshire	£3,570	£141,494	£145,064
Flintshire	£5,603	£206,649	£212,252
Gwynedd	£4,034	£201,879	£205,913
Isle of Anglesey	£2,500	£114,080	£116,580
Merthyr Tydfil	£2,500	£102,256	£104,756
Monmouthshire	£3,383	£230,513	£233,896
Neath Port Talbot	£5,204	£254,394	£259,598
Newport	£4,986	£391,257	£396,243
Pembrokeshire	£4,435	£201,070	£205,506
Powys	£4,902	£243,855	£248,758
Rhondda Cynon Taff	£8,484	£347,497	£355,981
Swansea	£8,814	£346,297	£355,111
Torfaen	£3,305	£278,476	£281,781
Vale of Glamorgan	£4,480	£205,131	£209,611
Wrexham	£4,913	£184,144	£189,057

Articles 3(2), 4(2) and 5(2)

SCHEDULE 2 Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas where a police and crime commissioner election taken together with the poll at a relevant election or referendum

1 Voting area	2 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified services	3 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified expenses	4 Overall maximum recoverable amount
Bristol, City of UA	£16,846	£288,557	£305,402
Hartlepool UA	£3,687	£74,937	£78,624

Articles 6, 7(1) and 8(1)

SCHEDULE 3 Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for police areas

1 Police area	2 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified services	3 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified expenses	4 Overall maximum recoverable amount
ENGLAND
Avon and Somerset	£8,000	£25,139	£33,139
Bedfordshire	£8,000	£15,689	£23,689
Cambridgeshire	£8,000	£19,030	£27,030
Cheshire	£8,000	£18,378	£26,378
Cleveland	£8,000	£16,332	£24,332
Cumbria	£8,000	£17,895	£25,895
Derbyshire	£8,000	£22,623	£30,623
Devon and Cornwall	£8,000	£28,025	£36,025
Dorset	£8,000	£20,680	£28,680
Durham	£8,000	£15,003	£23,003
Essex	£8,000	£29,768	£37,768
Gloucestershire	£8,000	£18,334	£26,334
Greater Manchester	£8,000	£30,138	£38,138
Hampshire	£8,000	£30,581	£38,581
Hertfordshire	£8,000	£23,771	£31,771
Humberside	£8,000	£17,875	£25,875
Kent	£8,000	£28,725	£36,725
Lancashire	£8,000	£28,752	£36,752
Leicestershire	£8,000	£22,579	£30,579
Lincolnshire	£8,000	£19,609	£27,609
Merseyside	£8,000	£20,470	£28,470
Norfolk	£8,000	£20,254	£28,254
North Yorkshire	£8,000	£20,833	£28,833
Northamptonshire	£8,000	£19,477	£27,477
Northumbria	£8,000	£21,728	£29,728
Nottinghamshire	£8,000	£21,905	£29,905
South Yorkshire	£8,000	£19,495	£27,495
Staffordshire	£8,000	£22,977	£30,977
Suffolk	£8,000	£19,634	£27,634
Surrey	£8,000	£24,719	£32,719
Sussex	£8,000	£28,465	£36,465
Thames Valley	£8,000	£33,617	£41,617
Warwickshire	£8,000	£17,173	£25,173
West Mercia	£8,000	£23,457	£31,457
West Midlands	£8,000	£27,614	£35,614
West Yorkshire	£8,000	£23,725	£31,725
Wiltshire	£8,000	£15,146	£23,146
WALES
Dyfed-Powys	£8,000	£16,550	£24,550
Gwent	£8,000	£17,584	£25,584
North Wales	£8,000	£18,960	£26,960
South Wales	£8,000	£22,268	£30,268

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for payments for services and expenses of local returning officers and police area returning officers in connection with the conduct of the ordinary election of police and crime commissioners to be held on 15 November 2012 under Chapter 6 of Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13). Under section 55(1) of that Act, a local returning officer or police area returning officer may recover their charges for services rendered and expenses incurred provided that they were necessarily rendered or incurred for the efficient and effective conduct of the election and provided that the total does not exceed the overall maximum recoverable amount specified by the Secretary of State in an order. Section 55(3) also enables the Secretary of State to specify by order a maximum recoverable amount for services or expenses of any specified description.

Articles 3 to 5 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, this Order specify maximum amounts in relation to local returning officers. Article 3 deals with the overall maximum amount for a voting area, article 4 deals with specified services and article 5 deals with specified expenses. Schedule 1 applies to stand-alone polls and Schedule 2 applies where the ordinary election of a police and crime commissioner is taken together with an election in England for the return of an elected mayor or with a referendum in England in relation to a proposal to change arrangements for local authority governance. The table in each of those Schedules lists for each voting area the maximum recoverable amount for the specified services (column 2), the maximum recoverable amount for the specified expenses (column 3) and the overall maximum recoverable amount (column 4).

Articles 6 to 8 of, and Schedule 3 to, this Order specify the maximum amounts in relation to police area returning officers. Article 6 deals with the overall maximum amount for a police area, article 7 deals with specified services and article 8 deals with specified expenses. Schedule 3 applies whether the poll is a stand-alone poll or a combined poll. The table in the Schedule lists for each police area the maximum recoverable amount for the specified services (column 2), the maximum recoverable amount for the specified expenses (column 3) and the overall maximum recoverable amount (column 4).

In the case of an uncontested election, article 9 provides that articles 3 to 8 do not apply. Instead the overall maximum recoverable amount is £1,750 for each voting area and £350 for each police area.

(1)

2011 c.13.

(2)

Consent of the Treasury is required by section 55(1)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

(3)

1996 c.16.

(4)

2000 c.22. Section 9H was inserted by section 21 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Localism Act 2011 (c.20).

(5)

Part 1A was inserted by section 21 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Localism Act 2011.

(6)

S.I. 2012/1917.

(7)

Article 13 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1917) applies section 15(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50) with modifications in relation to police and crime commissioner elections. Where the poll at an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners is to be taken on the same day as the poll at one or more other elections or referendums listed in section 15(1)(d) of that Act (as so modified), the polls are required to be taken together. The date set by section 50(2) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 for the first ordinary election of police and crime commissioners is 15th November 2012. On that date there will also be an election in one voting area of a directly elected mayor and a referendum in another voting area under Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000 (see S.I. 2007/1024, S.I. 2012/323 and S.I. 2012/336).

(8)

S.I. 2012/1918.