Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2012.

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

(3) “Police area” means a police area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996(1) (police areas outside London).

Designation of police area returning officers

2.—(1) This article designates for the purposes of section 54(1) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (returning officers etc) the person who is to be police area returning officer for—

(a)each police area in England other than Lancashire and Sussex, and

(b)each police area in Wales other than Gwent.

(2) In respect of a police area in England listed in column 1 of Schedule 1, the police area returning officer is to be the person who is acting returning officer for the parliamentary constituency listed in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to the name of the police area (being a constituency that falls wholly or partly within the police area)(2).

(3) In respect of a police area in Wales listed in column 1 of Schedule 2, the police area returning officer is to be the person who is acting returning officer for the parliamentary constituency listed in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to the name of the police area (being a constituency that falls wholly or partly within the police area)(3).