{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-mayoral-elections-england-and-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Combination of polls",
  "text": "(1) Where the poll at a mayoral election is taken together with the poll at a relevant election or referendum, the Mayoral Elections Rules shall be modified so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 3.\n(2) Where the poll at a mayoral election is taken together with a poll at a police and crime commissioner election and is not also taken together with a poll at any other relevant election or referendum, Schedule 3 has effect subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 3A.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 renumbered as reg. 4(1) (7.8.2012) by The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2059), regs. 1, 2(3) (which amending S.I. together with its amendments to the 2007 Regulations are revoked (6.4.2014 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the revoking S.I.) by S.I. 2014/370, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) inserted (7.8.2012) by The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2059), regs. 1, 2(4) (which amending S.I. together with its amendments to the 2007 Regulations are revoked (6.4.2014 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the revoking S.I.) by S.I. 2014/370, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 27.3.2007, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Provisions as to the combination of polls at elections, including mayoral elections, are contained in section 36 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (as applied by Schedule 2 of these Regulations); section 15 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (as similarly applied); and the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) (Regulations) 2001."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1024/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:19.544645+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}