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Section 72 Amendment of police areas: term of office of commissionerI1C1

England and Wales

(1)

Subsection (2) applies where a person becomes police and crime commissioner for a resulting police area by virtue of, or of an election required to be held by, a police area alteration order.

(2)

The person's term of office as police and crime commissioner ends at the time when it would end had the person been elected as police and crime commissioner at the previous ordinary election of commissioners in England or, as the case may be, Wales.

(3)

In this section—

  • “police area alteration order” means—

    1. (a)

      an order under section 32 of the Police Act 1996 (power to alter police areas by order);

    2. (b)

      an order under section 10 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (implementation of Boundary Committee for England review of local government areas) which alters the boundary of any police area in England;

    3. (c)

      F1an order under section 45 of the F2Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru etc. Act 2013 (recommendations for changes to police areas) which alters the boundary of any police area in Wales;

  • “resulting police area”, in relation to a police area alteration order, means a police area existing immediately after the order comes into force—

    1. (a)

      which is created by the order, or

    2. (b)

      any part of whose boundary results from the order.

(4)

References in this section to the coming into force of a police area alteration order are references to the changes in police areas made by the order taking effect.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 72(3)(c) substituted (30.9.2013) by Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 4), s. 75(2)(d), Sch. 1 para. 5

F2

Words in s. 72(3) substituted (25.6.2024) by Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (asc 4), s. 25(1)(a), Sch. 1 para. 4

Modifications

C1

Ss. 71-75 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(d)

Commencement

I1

S. 72 in force at 25.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1129, art. 2(b)

Notes on Part 1

Modifications

C1

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (10.5.2021) by The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/112), arts. 1(4), 35(1) (with art. 35(3), Sch. 6)