{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/section-57",
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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/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Voting at elections of police and crime commissioners",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any election under this Chapter of a police and crime commissioner for a police area.\n(2) The commissioner is to be returned under the simple majority system....\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 57(2) omitted (26.10.2022) by virtue of Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), ss. 13(17)(a), 67(1); S.I. 2022/1093, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 57(3)-(5) omitted (26.10.2022) by virtue of Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), ss. 13(17)(b), 67(1); S.I. 2022/1093, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "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. 57 in force at 25.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1129, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/23",
      "affecting_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/13/section/57",
    "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."
}