The Police and Crime
Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area
Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2024
Explanatory note
Under section 55 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility
Act 2011 (c. 13), a returning officer may recover charges in
respect of services rendered, or expenses incurred, for or in
connection with an election if the services were necessarily
rendered, or the expenses necessarily incurred, for the efficient
and effective conduct of a police and crime commissioner election
(“PCC election”). Those charges may not however exceed the
overall maximum recoverable amount specified by the Secretary of
State, with the consent of the Treasury, in an order. An order
may also specify the maximum amount that may be recovered in
respect of any specified services or expenses.
Articles 4 and 5 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order specify the
maximum amounts for specified services and specified expenses,
and the overall maximum amount, that may be recovered by a local
returning officer in respect of a voting area at the PCC
elections scheduled for 2nd May 2024, some of which are combined
with other elections.
Articles 4 and 5, and Schedule 2, provide maximum recoverable
amounts for PCC elections taken alone following 2nd May 2024 to
fill a vacancy in the office of police and crime commissioner.
Articles 6 and 7 and Schedule 3 specify the overall maximum
amount and the maximum amounts for specified services and
specified expenses that may be recovered by a police area
returning officer in respect of a police area at a PCC election.
Article 8 specifies the maximum amounts that may be recovered
(instead of the amounts referred to above) where an election is
uncontested.
