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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-47",
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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/4/paragraph/47",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Modification of paragraph 13 (interpretation)",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 13—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) In this Part of this Schedule and in any provisions of the PCC elections rules modified by this Part—\n(a) “Senedd constituency” means a Senedd constituency as provided by section 2 of the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n(b) “combined polls” means the polls to be taken together by virtue of article 16 of the 2025 Order; and\n(c) a reference to the relevant returning officer is a reference to the returning officer exercising functions by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 2025 Order (as it applies to combined polls by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4A to that Order).”;\n(b) omit sub-paragraphs (3) and (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 Pt. 5 inserted (4.3.2016) by The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/300), arts. 1(2), 6(3) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 47(1)(a) substituted (16.1.2023) by The Voter Identification Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1382), regs. 1(3), 62(4)(a) (with reg. 1(6)(7))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 47(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 and the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/32), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(a) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 47(1)(a) substituted (W.) (18.7.2025) by The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/864), art. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 4(6)(a) (with art. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 47(1)(a) substituted (W.) (18.7.2025) by The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/864), art. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 4(6)(b) (with art. 1(4))"
    }
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    "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."
}