Part 5: Police and Crime Commissioners and Police Areas Section 122: Eligibility of deputy police and crime commissioner for election
Section 65 of the 2011 Act disqualifies a deputy PCC, by virtue of being a member of the PCC’s staff, from being elected as a PCC. This section amends section 65 to allow a deputy PCC to stand for election at an ordinary PCC election.
	This section also enables a deputy PCC to stand for election as PCC at a by-election, but only where the deputy PCC has been appointed as acting PCC by the relevant Police and Crime Panel, and remains in that post from the time they are nominated as a candidate until the declaration of the result of the by-election.