{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1917",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012",
  "path": "article/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Officials not to act for candidates",
  "text": "(1) If any person who is—\n(a) a police area returning officer or local returning officer at a PCC election, or\n(b) a deputy of any such returning officer, or\n(c) an officer of a local authority whose services have been placed at the disposal of such a returning officer, or\n(d) an officer or clerk appointed under the PCC elections rules, or\n(e) a deputy or clerk appointed under regulation 5 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012 , or\n(f) a partner or clerk of a person mentioned in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) in connection with that person's official duties,\nacts as a candidate's agent in the conduct or management of the election, the person is guilty of an offence, but nothing in this paragraph prevents a candidate from acting as the candidate's own election agent.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this article is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1918."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/article/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:32.209917+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."
}