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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-combined-authorities-mayoral-elections-order-2017/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111151815",
  "legislation_title": "The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-combined-authorities-mayoral-elections-order-2017",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983;\n“the 2009 Act” means the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;\n“the Elections Regulations” means the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001;\n“the Combined Authority Mayoral Elections Rules” means the rules set out in Schedule 1 or Schedule 3 to this Order as the case may be;\n“the Referendums Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) Regulations 2012 or the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (Council Tax Increases) (England) Regulations 2012;\n“candidate” means a candidate to be a combined authority mayor;\n“combined authority mayor”, in relation to the area of a combined authority, means the mayor for the area of the authority by virtue of an order under section 107A(1) of the 2009 Act;\n“combined authority mayoral election” and “election” means an election for the return of a combined authority mayor;\n“combined authority returning officer” means—\n(a) the person appointed under article 6; or\n(b) any person appointed under subsection section 35(4) of the 1983 Act by a person of a description mentioned in paragraph (a);\n“constituent council” in relation to the area of a combined authority, means—\n(a) a county council the whole or any part of whose area is within the area of the combined authority; or\n(b) a district council whose area is within the area of the combined authority;\n“electoral area” means the area for the combined authority for which the election is held;\n“European Parliamentary election” has the same meaning as in section 27(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n“local government election” has the same meaning as in section 203(1) of the 1983 Act;\n“local government mayoral election” means an election for the return of an elected mayor in accordance with Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000;\n“police and crime commissioner election” means an election of a police and crime commissioner in accordance with Chapter 6 of Part 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011;\n“proper officer” has the meaning given by section 270(3) of the Local Government Act 1972;\n“referendum” means a referendum conducted under the Referendums Regulations;\n“register of local government electors” means the register maintained under section 9 of the Representation of the People Act 1983;\n“relevant election or referendum” means one or more of the following—\n(a) a Parliamentary election,\n(b) a European Parliamentary election,\n(c) a local government election,\n(d) a local government mayoral election,\n(e) another combined authority mayoral election,\n(f) a referendum,\n(g) a police and crime commissioner election,\nthe poll at which is taken together with the poll at the combined authority mayoral election;\n“returning officer”, in relation to a combined authority mayoral election, means—\n(a) the person appointed in accordance with article 5, or\n(b) any person appointed under section 35(4) of the 1983 Act by a person of a description mentioned in paragraph (a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341 amended by S.I. 2001/1700, 2002/1871, 2006/2910, 2013/3198, 2015/1376 and 2015/1971."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/323."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/444 amended by S.I. 2013/409, 2014/231 and 2014/925."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 107A was inserted by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016, section 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "See section 120 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 for meaning of “combined authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1985 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "The definition of “local government election” in section 203(1) was amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), section 17 and Schedule 3. See Schedule 2 for further modifications of this section."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "2000 c. 22. Part 1A was inserted by the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section 21 and Schedule 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "2011 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1983 c. 2. Section 9 was substituted by the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2), section 8 and Schedule 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "Subsection (4) was amended by the Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40), section 237 and Schedule 12."
    }
  ],
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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