Article 4 Combination of polls at Assembly and Police and Crime commissioner elections

After article 16 (combination of polls at Assembly and local government elections), insert—

“Combination of polls at Assembly and police and crime commissioner elections

16A.

(1)

Where the polls at an Assembly general election and an ordinary election of police and crime commissioners are to be taken on the same date, they must be taken together.

(2)

Where the polls at an Assembly election and a police and crime commissioner election for related areas are to be taken on the same date but are not required by paragraph (1) to be taken together, they may nevertheless be taken together if the returning officer for each election thinks fit.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (2) two areas are related if one is coterminous with or situated wholly or partly within the other.

(4)

Where the polls at any elections are combined under this article the cost of taking the combined polls (excluding any cost solely attributable to one election) and any cost attributable to their combination is to be apportioned equally among the elections.

(5)

Schedule 4A (which makes provision in connection with the combination of polls at Assembly and police and crime commissioner elections) has effect.

(6)

In this article “ordinary election of police and crime commissioners” has the same meaning as in section 50 of the 2011 Act^f1.”

Schedule 1 (which inserts Schedule 4A into the 2007 Order to make provision for the combination of polls at Assembly elections and police and crime commissioner elections) has effect.