Secondary Legislation under Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

Showing 20 Statutory Instruments linked to this bill.

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers' Accounts) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 181
Laid before Parliament: 23 February 2024
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations provide for the time when, and manner and form in which, accounts are to be submitted by returning officers for police and crime commissioner elections.

Representation of the People (Variation of Election Expenses and Exclusions) Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 29 January 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Local Government Act 2000 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Representation of the People Act 1983
SI explanatory text These Regulations increase the maximum amount of election expenses which may be incurred by candidates at Greater London Authority and local authority mayoral elections in England to take account of inflation. This is an 81.05% increase (rounded to 2 decimal places) in the figures for Greater London Authority elections and 29.09% (rounded to 2 decimal places) in the figures for local authority mayoral elections. The calculated figures have been rounded down to the nearest £10. The extent of the increases also reflects the passage of time since the figures were set. The new maximum amount for local authority mayoral elections aligns with the new maximum amount for combined authority mayoral elections and combined county authority mayoral elections set out in the Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024.

Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023

Laid before Parliament: 23 October 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Northern Ireland Act 1998 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Recall of MPs Act 2015 Representation of the People Act 1983
SI explanatory text The Elections Act 2022 (c. 37) amended the Representation of the People Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) (c. 50) to expand the franchise for parliamentary elections in respect of British citizens overseas, removing the 15 year limit on voting for British citizens overseas and allowing registration based on both previous registration and previous residence in the United Kingdom.

Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Laid before Parliament: 23 October 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision related to the expansion of the franchise for parliamentary elections in respect of British citizens overseas by sections 1 to 1E of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), as substituted by section 14 of the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37). These Regulations also make provision related to the change to be made to the franchise for local government electors in England by section 15 of the Elections Act 2022 (voting and candidacy rights of EU citizens) and provision related to absent voting arrangements at police and crime commissioner elections in Wales.

Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Laid before Parliament: 11 September 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Local Government Act 2000 Local Government Finance Act 1992 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Recall of MPs Act 2015 Representation of the People Act 1983 Representation of the People Act 1985 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Welsh Language Act 1993
SI explanatory text These Regulations make amendments to subordinate legislation in consequence of provisions contained in the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37) (“the Act”). The amendments made by these Regulations complement provisions in the Act relating to the handling of postal voting documents by political campaigners (section 4); handing in postal voting documents (section 5); the requirements relating to secrecy (section 7); and the simple majority system to be used in elections for certain offices (section 13).

Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Laid before Parliament: 6 July 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Local Government Act 2000 Local Government Finance Act 1992 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Recall of MPs Act 2015 Representation of the People Act 1983 Town and Country Planning Act 1990
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision related to the implementation of section 3 (restriction of period for which person can apply for a postal vote) and section 6 (limit on the number of electors for whom a proxy can vote) of the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37) (“EA 2022”), as well as amending provisions related to the processing of applications for electoral registration under section 10ZC of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) (“the 1983 Act”).

Policing Protocol Order 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 649
Laid before Parliament: 13 June 2023
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text Section 79 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13) requires the Secretary of State to issue a Policing Protocol. This Order replaces the Policing Protocol, issued under the Policing Protocol Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2744), which it revokes, with the Policing Protocol 2023.

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and Welsh Forms (Amendment) Order 2022

Laid before Parliament: 1 November 2022
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text This Order amends the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1917) (“the 2012 Order”), in consequence of section 13 of the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), which provides that the simple majority system is to be used in all elections for certain offices, including police and crime commissioners. This Order updates and replaces references in the 2012 Order to the supplementary vote system, which was previously used for elections for police and crime commissioners where there were three or more candidates.

Assistance with Voting for Persons with Disabilities (Amendments) Regulations 2022

Laid before Parliament: 24 October 2022
Procedure: Draft affirmative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Local Government Act 2000 Local Government Finance Act 1992 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Recall of MPs Act 2015 Representation of the People Act 1983 Representation of the People Act 1985 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Welsh Language Act 1993
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend various provisions in secondary legislation in consequence of, or to make similar provision to, section 9 of the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37). The Regulations make provision in respect of a number of types of elections and referendums, and also petitions for the recall of MPs.

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2022

Laid before Parliament: 17 October 2022
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text This Order amends the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1917) (“the 2012 Order”). Its main purpose is to make equivalent amendments to candidate expenses provisions for Police and Crime Commissioners’ (“PCC”) elections as the amendments made in respect of other elections by sections 20 to 22 of the Elections Act 2022 (c. 37). The Order also updates the list of qualifying welfare benefits in relation to certain proxy voting applications for PCC elections.

Representation of the People (Proxy Vote Applications) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Laid before Parliament: 10 January 2022
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text These Regulations extend the expiry date for certain amendments made by the Representation of the People (Proxy Vote Applications) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/391) (“the 2021 Regulations”) from 28th February 2022 to 28th February 2023.

Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) (Amendment) Order 2021

Reference: 2021 No. 547
Laid before Parliament: 6 May 2021
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text This Order amends the Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/3050) (“the 2011 Order”), which specifies information that must be published by elected local policing bodies (police and crime commissioners, and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime) for the purposes of section 11 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13).

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers' Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Reference: 2021 No. 179
Laid before Parliament: 23 February 2021
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2088) (“the 2012 Regulations”), which make provision for the submission of accounts by returning officers in respect of the recovery of their charges in connection with a police and crime commissioner election.

Representation of the People (Proxy Vote Applications) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021

Laid before Parliament: 22 February 2021
Procedure: Draft affirmative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Representation of the People Act 1983 Representation of the People Act 2000

Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Coronavirus, Nomination of Candidates) (Amendment) Order 2021

Laid before Parliament: 8 February 2021
Procedure: Draft affirmative

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Welsh Forms) Order 2021

Laid before Parliament: 1 February 2021
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text This Order prescribes forms, and forms of wording, for use at a police and crime commissioner (“PCC”) election taking place in Wales. The Welsh versions of the forms of words prescribed by article 3, the Welsh versions of the forms prescribed by article 4, and the Welsh and English versions of the forms prescribed by article 5 are translations of corresponding English wording that is contained in the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1917). The Welsh versions are to be available for use in any election of police and crime commissioners which takes place in Wales.

Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

Reference: 2020 No. 392
Laid before Parliament: 2 April 2020
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision for the conduct of local authority meetings held before 7th May 2021, and for public and press access to these meetings.

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2020

Laid before Parliament: 14 January 2020
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text This Order amends the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (“the 2012 Order”).

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 181
Laid before Parliament: 23 February 2024
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations provide for the time when, and manner and form in which, accounts are to be submitted by returning officers for police and crime commissioner elections.

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Reference: 2021 No. 179
Laid before Parliament: 23 February 2021
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Returning Officers’ Accounts) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2088) (“the 2012 Regulations”), which make provision for the submission of accounts by returning officers in respect of the recovery of their charges in connection with a police and crime commissioner election.