Part 1

Police reform
CHAPTER 6

Police and crime commissioners: elections and vacancies

Elections: further provision

The appropriate officer
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1
For each police area, other than the metropolitan police district, the Secretary of State must by order designate a local authority.
2
In this Chapter, the “appropriate officer”, in relation to any such police area, means the head of paid service of the local authority designated for that police area.
3
In this section—
- “local authority” means—
  1. a district council,
  2. a county council in England for a county in which there are no district councils,
  3. the Council of the Isles of Scilly,
  4. a county council or county borough council in Wales;
- “head of paid service”, in relation to a council, means the person designated by the council under section 4(1)(a) of the Local Government Act 1989.