The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) (Amendment) Order 2021

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 259

Police, England And Wales

The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) (Amendment) Order 2021

Made

8th March 2021

Coming into force

9th March 2021

The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes the following 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).

Before making this Order, the Minister for the Cabinet Office consulted the Electoral Commission in accordance with section 7(1) and (2)(ha) of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000(2).

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) (Amendment) Order 2021.

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

Amendment of 2020 Order

2.—(1) The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2020(3) is amended as follows.

(2) Omit article 4 (revocation and saving).

(3) In the table in Schedule 1 (police area returning officers: England)—

(a) in the entry relating to the police area of Surrey, in column 2, for “Reigate” substitute “Runnymede and Weybridge”;

(b) omit the entry relating to the police area of West Yorkshire(4).

(4) In the table in Schedule 2 (police area returning officers: Wales), in the entry relating to the police area of Dyfed-Powys, in column 2, for “Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire” substitute “Ceredigion”.

Transitory provision

3.  The amendments made by article 2 have no effect in respect of any election which takes place before 6th May 2021.

Chloe Smith

Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution

Cabinet Office

8th March 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/136) (“the 2020 Order”).

The 2020 Order designated, under section 54(1)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), the persons who, in elections of police and crime commissioners, are to be the returning officers for the police areas named in Schedules 1 and 2 to that Order (for England and for Wales). Article 2 of this Order makes changes in respect of the police areas set out there. Article 3 provides that these changes will not affect any election held before 6th May 2021.

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 (“the 2011 Act”). Section 54 was amended by S.I. 2015/1376, 2016/997 and 2018/1310. Section 154(5) was amended by S.I. 2014/268 and 2016/997.

(2)

2000 c. 41. In section 7(2) paragraph (ha) was inserted by paragraphs 8 and 11 of Schedule 10 to the 2011 Act.

(3)

S.I. 2020/136.

(4)

The Mayor of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, first to be elected on 6th May 2021, will exercise the functions of the police and crime commissioner for West Yorkshire, and no further elections of the latter office will take place (S.I. 2021/112, Part 10).