Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

63Vacancy where acting commissioner acts for 6 months
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(1)Subsection (2) applies where—

(a)an acting commissioner is appointed under section 62 to act for the police and crime commissioner for a police area because the police and crime commissioner is incapacitated, and

(b)the police and crime commissioner does not cease to be incapacitated during the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which the acting commissioner is appointed.

(2)At the end of that 6 month period—

(a)the police and crime commissioner ceases to be police and crime commissioner, and

(b)accordingly, the office of police and crime commissioner for that police area becomes vacant.