
2024 No. 836
Police, England And Wales
The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) (Amendment) Order 2024
Made 29th July 2024
Coming into force 30th July 2024

The Secretary of State makes this 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.

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.
Citation, commencement 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) (Amendment) Order 2024.
(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(3) In this Order “the 2024 Order” means the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024.
Amendment of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Local Authorities and Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2024
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(1) The 2024 Order is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 1(4), in the definition of “police area”, after “North Yorkshire” insert “, South Yorkshire”.
(3) For the table in Schedule 3 (designated police area returning officers in England) substitute the table in Schedule 1 to this Order.
(4) For the table in Schedule 4 (designated police area returning officers in Wales) substitute the table in Schedule 2 to this Order.
Validity of things done and continuity of charges incurred
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(1) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to a police area returning officer designated by the 2024 Order before the coming into force of this Order.
(2) Any charges incurred for specified services or specified expenses by a police area returning officer designated for a police area by the 2024 Order before the coming into force of this Order are to be treated as having been incurred by the police area returning officer who is designated for the same police area following the coming into force of this Order for the purpose of each maximum recoverable amount for that police area.
(3) In this article—
 “maximum recoverable amount” means the amount specified in, as the case may be, column (2), (3) or (4) of the table in Schedule 3 to the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2024;
 “specified services” and “specified expenses” have the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2024.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Alex Norris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
29th July 2024
SCHEDULE 1
Designated police area returning officers in England
Article 2(3)


(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 2
Designated police area returning officers in Wales
Article 2(4)


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