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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-29",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/29",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Combination of polls",
  "text": "(1) Where the poll at a PCC election is to be taken together under a relevant provision with the poll at one or more other elections or local referendums, the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers in respect of each election or local referendum may, subject to sub-paragraph (1A) and if the returning officers and counting officers concerned agree, be taken together.\n(1A) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the polls of a PCC election and any of the following are taken together—\n(a) a local government election in Wales;\n(b) an election described in section 15(1)(d)(v) of the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n(c) a referendum in Wales described in section 15(3)(a)(v) or (vi) of the Representation of the People Act 1985;\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), “relevant provision” means the provisions of section 15(1) or (2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985, as they have effect in relation to PCC elections by virtue of article 13 of this Order.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 29(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), regs. 1(2), 8(6)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 29(1A) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), regs.1(2), 8(6)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 29(2) inserted (4.3.2016) by The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/300), arts. 1(2), 5(2)(a) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 29(3) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), regs. 1(2), 8(6)(b)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/2/paragraph/29",
    "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."
}