2012 No. 1965

Police, England And Wales

The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Designation of Police Area Returning Officers) Order 2012

Made

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

This Order is made by the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 54(1)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 20111.

In accordance with section 7(2)(ha) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 20002, the Secretary of State has consulted the Electoral Commission.

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

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 19963 (police areas outside London).

Designation of police area returning officers2

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)4.

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)5.

Nick HerbertMinister of StateHome Office

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Police area returning officers: England

Article 2(2)

Column 1

Name of police area in England

Column 2

Parliamentary constituency for which the acting returning officer is police area returning officer

Avon & Somerset

Bristol South

Bedfordshire

Luton South

Cambridgeshire

South East Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Halton

Cleveland

Stockton South

Cumbria

Westmorland and Lonsdale

Derbyshire

Amber Valley

Devon and Cornwall

South East Cornwall

Dorset

Poole

Durham

Durham

Essex

Chelmsford

Gloucestershire

Stroud

Greater Manchester

Manchester Central

Hampshire

Southampton, Itchen

Hertfordshire

Broxbourne

Humberside

East Yorkshire

Kent

Dover

Leicestershire

North West Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Lincoln

Merseyside

Liverpool, Riverside

Norfolk

Norwich South

North Yorkshire

York Outer

Northamptonshire

Kettering

Northumbria

Sunderland Central

Nottinghamshire

Rushcliffe

South Yorkshire

Barnsley East

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent North

Suffolk

Waveney

Surrey

Guildford

Thames Valley

Aylesbury

Warwickshire

Stratford-on-Avon

West Mercia

North Shropshire

West Midlands

Birmingham, Edgbaston

West Yorkshire

Wakefield

Wiltshire

South Swindon

SCHEDULE 2Police area returning officers: Wales

Article 2(3)

Column 1

Name of police area in Wales

Column 2

Parliamentary constituency for which the acting returning officer is police area returning officer

Dyfed-Powys

Preseli Pembrokeshire

North Wales

Delyn

South Wales

Bridgend

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision in relation to elections in England and Wales of police and crime commissioners under Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13).

Article 2(2) and Schedule 1 designate the persons who, in any such election, are to act as the returning officer for each police area in England apart from Lancashire, Sussex, the metropolitan police district and the City of London police area.

Article 2(3) and Schedule 2 designate the persons who are to act as the returning officer for each police area in Wales apart from Gwent.