The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2016

Made: 12th April 2016

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

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PART 1 — Introduction

Citation, commencement and revocation

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Interpretation

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PART 2 — Charges for services and expenses of local returning officers

Local returning officers: overall maximum recoverable amount

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Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

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Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

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PART 3 — Charges for services and expenses of police area returning officers

Police area returning officers: overall maximum recoverable amount

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Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

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Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

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PART 4 — Charges at uncontested elections

Overall maximum recoverable amount at an uncontested election

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SCHEDULE 1 — Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas

SCHEDULE 2 — Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas where the poll for an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners is taken together with the poll for an ordinary election of councillors

SCHEDULE 3 — Local returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas where the poll for an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners election is taken together with the poll for an election for the return of an elected mayor and the poll for an ordinary election of councillors

SCHEDULE 4 — Local Returning Officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting area where the poll for an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners is taken together with the poll for a governance referendum and the poll for an ordinary election of councillors

SCHEDULE 5 — Local Returning Officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas where the poll for an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners is taken together with the poll for a governance referendum

SCHEDULE 6 — Local Returning Officers: maximum recoverable amounts for voting areas where the poll for an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners is taken together with the poll at an Assembly general election

SCHEDULE 7 — Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amounts for police areas

Signed

John Penrose — Minister for Constitutional Reform — Cabinet Office — 6th April 2016

We consent to this Order

Mel Stride — George Hollingbury — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 12th April 2016

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2011 c. 13; powers conferred on the Secretary of State under sections 55 and 154 are exercisable concurrently with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by virtue of S.I. 2015/1526 (which also made a consequential amendment to section 55 to reflect that). Those powers may only be exercised by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster so far as they relate to an election the poll for which is on or after 1st May 2016. Section 154 has also been amended by S.I. 2014/268 and S.I. 2015/1376.

[^f00002]: Consent is required by virtue of section 55(1)(b) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2012/2378.

[^f00004]: 2000 c. 22.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2007/236; amendments have been made to this instrument but they are not relevant to this Order. “Assembly general election” is defined in article 2(1).

[^f00006]: A new Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000 was inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20). Section 9H is in Chapter 2 of Part 1A.

[^f00007]: 1972 c. 70; subsection (2) was amended by section 102 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 16 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51). Other amendments have been made to this section but they are not relevant to this Order.

[^f00008]: 1996 c. 16; Schedule 1 has been amended by section 129 of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50) and by S.I.s 1997/1844; 1997/1845; 1997/1846; 1997/1847; 1997/1849; 1997/1850; 1997/1855; 1997/1857; and 2009/119.

[^f00009]: The Secretary of State’s functions under section 54(1) are exercisable concurrently with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by virtue of S.I. 2015/1376 so far as they relate to an election the poll for which is on or after 1st May 2016.

[^f00010]: S.I. 2012/1917; relevant amendments to article 2 are made by S.I. 2015/1526 and S.I. 2016/300.

[^f00011]: paragraphs (2A) to (2C) were inserted by S.I. 2016/300.

[^f00012]: S.I. 2012/1918.

Editorial notes

[^key-ed27d2aec5be87fdfe8391512d130db5]: Order revoked in so far as it relates to an election for which the date of poll is on or after 6.5.2021 (24.3.2021) by The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers' and Police Area Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/390), art. 1(4) (with art. 1(3))