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The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2016

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3.—(1) Amend article 2 (interpretation) as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a)in the appropriate places insert—

“the 2007 Order” means the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007(1);,

“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales;,

“Assembly election” means an election to return a member of the Assembly for an Assembly constituency or an election to return members of the Assembly for an Assembly electoral region (or both);;

(b)in the definition of “local returning officer”, at the end insert “(but see paragraph (2B)(b))”; and

(c)in the definition of “voting area” for “paragraph (2)” substitute “paragraph (2) or, where it applies, paragraph (2B)”.

(3) In paragraph (2), at the beginning, insert “Subject to paragraphs (2A) and (2B)(a),”.

(4) After paragraph (2) insert—

(2A) Paragraph (2B) applies where the poll at a PCC election is required to be taken together with the poll at an Assembly election by virtue of article 16A(1) of the 2007 Order.

(2B) At an election mentioned in paragraph (2A)—

(a)an Assembly constituency as it exists on the day of the PCC election (and not a county or county borough) is a voting area for the purposes of this Order;

(b)a reference in this Order to the local returning officer for a voting area is a reference to the local returning officer exercising functions in relation to that voting area pursuant to regulation 2A of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012(2); and

(c)the definition of “relevant registration officer” has effect as if at the end there were inserted “(but where a voting area comprises any part of the area of more than one local authority, the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the greater or greatest (as the case may be) number of electors is registered)”.

(2C) In paragraph (2B)(a) “Assembly constituency” means an Assembly constituency as provided by section 2 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Assembly constituencies and electoral regions)(3)..

(2)

Regulation 2A is inserted by article 9 of this Order.

(3)

2006 c. 32; section 2 has been amended by section 13 of the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1).

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