
2024 No. 186
Police, England And Wales
The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024
Made 21st February 2024
Coming into force 22nd February 2024

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 54(1)(b), 75(1) and 154(5)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

The Secretary of State has consulted the Electoral Commission in accordance with section 7(1) and (2)(ha) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 in relation to the designations of returning officers for elections of persons as police and crime commissioners in England and Wales.
Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) This Order extends to England and Wales.
(3) This Order does not apply in respect of any election for which the date of poll, as specified in the notice of election published in accordance with rule 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012, is on or before 1st May 2024.
(4) In this Order—
 “the 2011 Act” means the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011;
 “police area” means a police area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 (police areas outside London), other than Greater Manchester, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire  and West Yorkshire.
Designation of local authorities in England
2 
In respect of each police area in England listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1, for the purpose of section 75(1) of the 2011 Act (the appropriate officer), the designated local authority is the authority listed in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.
Designation of local authorities in Wales
3 
In respect of each police area in Wales listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 2, for the purpose of section 75(1) of the 2011 Act (the appropriate officer), the designated local authority is the authority listed in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.
Designation of police area returning officers in England
4 
In respect of each police area in England listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 3, the police area returning officer is the person who is the acting returning officer for the parliamentary constituency listed in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.
Designation of police area returning officers in Wales
5 
In respect of each police area in Wales listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 4, the police area returning officer is the person who is the acting returning officer for the parliamentary constituency listed in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.
Consequential amendments
6 

(1) In the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017, in Schedule 2 (exclusion of legislation from application to the combined authority mayor with policing and crime functions) omit paragraphs 32 and 33.
(2) In the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021, in Schedule 6 (exclusion of legislation from application to the combined authority mayor with policing and crime functions) omit paragraphs 32 and 33.
(3) In the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023, in Schedule 6 (exclusion of legislation from application to the Combined Authority Mayor with policing and crime functions) omit paragraphs 32 and 33.
Revocations and savings
7 

(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the following Orders are revoked—
(a) the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) Order 2020;
(b) the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2020;
(c) the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities) (Amendment) Order 2021;
(d) the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) (Amendment) Order 2021.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), omit articles 2 and 3 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designations etc.) (Amendment) Order 2022.
(3) The Orders revoked by paragraph (1) and the articles omitted by paragraph (2) continue to have effect in respect of any election for which the date of poll, as specified in the notice of election published in accordance with rule 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012, is on or before 1st May 2024.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Simon Hoare
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
21st February 2024
SCHEDULE 1
Designated local authorities in England
Article 2


(1) Name of police area (2) Local authority
Avon and Somerset Bath and North East Somerset Council
Bedfordshire Luton Council
Cambridgeshire East Cambridgeshire District Council
Cheshire Halton Borough Council
Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
Cumbria Cumberland Council
Derbyshire Derby City Council
Devon and Cornwall Plymouth City Council
Dorset Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Durham Durham County Council
Essex Colchester City Council
Gloucestershire Gloucester City Council
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southampton City Council
Hertfordshire Broxbourne Borough Council
Humberside East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Kent Gravesham Borough Council
Lancashire Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Leicestershire Leicester City Council
Lincolnshire City of Lincoln Council
Merseyside Liverpool City Council
Norfolk Broadland District Council
Northamptonshire West Northamptonshire Council
Northumbria Sunderland City Council
Nottinghamshire Rushcliffe Borough Council
South Yorkshire Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Staffordshire East Staffordshire Borough Council
Suffolk West Suffolk Council
Surrey Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
Sussex Brighton and Hove City Council
Thames Valley West Berkshire Council
Warwickshire North Warwickshire Borough Council
West Mercia Telford and Wrekin Council
West Midlands Coventry City Council
Wiltshire Wiltshire Council
SCHEDULE 2
Designated local authorities in Wales
Article 3


(1) Name of police area (2) Local authority
Dyfed Powys Ceredigion County Council
Gwent Caerphilly County Borough Council
North Wales Wrexham County Borough Council
South Wales Neath Port Talbot Council
SCHEDULE 3
Designated police area returning officers in England
Article 4


(1) Name of police area (2) Parliamentary constituency
Avon and Somerset Bath
Bedfordshire Luton South and South Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire Ely and East Cambridgeshire
Cheshire Widnes and Halewood
Cleveland Stockton North
Cumbria Whitehaven and Workington
Derbyshire Derby North
Devon and Cornwall Plymouth Moor View
Dorset Bournemouth East
Durham Bishop Auckland
Essex Colchester
Gloucestershire Gloucester
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southampton Test
Hertfordshire Broxbourne
Humberside Beverley and Holderness
Kent Gravesham
Lancashire Blackburn
Leicestershire Leicester West
Lincolnshire Lincoln
Merseyside Liverpool Riverside
Norfolk Broadland and Fakenham
Northamptonshire Northampton North
Northumbria Sunderland Central
Nottinghamshire Rushcliffe
Staffordshire Burton and Uttoxeter
Suffolk West Suffolk
Surrey Reigate
Sussex Brighton Pavilion
Thames Valley Newbury
Warwickshire North Warwickshire and Bedworth
West Mercia The Wrekin
West Midlands Coventry South
Wiltshire Salisbury
SCHEDULE 4
Designated police area returning officers in Wales
Article 5


(1) Name of police area (2) Parliamentary constituency
Dyfed Powys Ceredigion Preseli
Gwent Caerphilly
North Wales Wrexham
South Wales Aberafan Maesteg