Notice of the latest time for the submission

Notice of the latest time for the submission of election addresses of candidates to the Police Area Returning Officer

In accordance with paragraph 2, Schedule 8, Part 1 of The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012, the Police Area Returning Officer must give public notice for the latest time that candidates standing in this election may submit their candidate address.
 
The deadline for candidates to submit their election address will be 12.00pm (NOON) on Friday 5 April 2024.

  1. The election address must be prepared by the candidate’s agent and submitted electronically via the MY PCC website (links available from PARO) to the Police Area Returning Officer by the above time. 

  2. The address of the election agent must also be given. 

  3. The election address must be submitted in English or Welsh and the election agent may also submit a translation into Welsh or English which is a complete and accurate translation. 

  4. An election address must specify the candidate’s name and must contain matter relating to the above election only. 

  5. The election address must not contain any advertising material (other than material promoting the candidate as a candidate at the election). 

  6. The election address must not contain any material referring to any other candidate for the election. 

  7. The election address must not appear to the Police Area Returning Officer to contain any material with a view to commercial gain, or be indecent, obscene or offensive. 

  8. The election address must not be a publication or distribution that would be likely to amount to the commission of an offence. 

  9. Any photograph showing the candidate which is included in the election address must show no other person and must comply with paragraphs 5 to 8 above. 

  10. The election address may include representation of a registered emblem, or (as the case may be) one of the registered emblems, of a registered political party, if the address is prepared on behalf of an authorised party candidate. 

  11. ​Where an election address is prepared on behalf of an authorised party candidate, the address may contain a description under section 28A of the 2000 Act or, if the description is registered for use by candidates of two or more parties, under section 28B of that Act.

Dated: Monday 25 March 2024 
Christina Harrhy - Police Area Returning Officer