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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/section-53",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/13",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Public awareness about elections: role of Electoral Commission",
  "text": "The Electoral Commission must, in relation to—\n(a) each ordinary election of police and crime commissioners under section 50,\n(b) each election to fill a vacancy in the office of police and crime commissioner for a police area under section 51,\ntake such steps as it considers appropriate to raise public awareness about the election and how to vote in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 50-61 excluded (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/470), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 21(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 25.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1129, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/13/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:27.716276+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."
}