Part 1: Constitutional Arrangements Chapter 4: Elections Section 8: Elections of police and crime commissions
Subsections (2) to (4) amend section 50 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 ("the PRSRA 2011"), which concerns ordinary elections of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), to provide that the timing of ordinary elections of PCCs in England and Wales ceases to follow the timing of ordinary local elections in England and Wales. Instead, the amendments provide for ordinary elections of PCCs to be held on the first Thursday in May in the year of an election, rather than on the day of ordinary local elections.
	Currently, ordinary local elections in England and Wales are held on the first Thursday in May, and the amendments will therefore not change the scheduled date for elections of PCCs. The amendments ensure that the timing of elections of PCCs, which are reserved under the Act, remains a matter to be determined by the UK Parliament.
	Subsection (5) amends section 51 of the PRSRA 2011 which concerns the holding of elections to fill a vacancy in the office of a PCC. Under section 51, the date of such an election must not be more than 35 days after the "relevant event" which is defined as being where the High Court or the appropriate officer has declared the office to be vacant and, in any other case the giving of the notice of vacancy to the appropriate officer by two or more relevant electors. Subsection (5) adds a new definition of "relevant elector" in Wales in consequence of the provisions on the entitlement to vote in elections of PCCs in Wales inserted by subsection (8).
	Subsections (6) to (8) amend section 52 of the PRSRA 2011, which concerns the franchise for PCC elections, to provide that the franchise for PCC elections in Wales will cease to correspond directly to the franchise for local government elections in Wales.
	Subsection (8) inserts a new subsection (1B) that provides that the PCC franchise in Wales will instead correspond to the parliamentary franchise, with the exclusion of overseas electors. Subsection (8) also inserts a new subsection (1C) that provides that the PCC franchise in Wales will additionally include peers and EU citizens over the age of 18 who are entitled to vote in local government elections in Wales.
	Subsections (9) to (11) amend section 64 of the PRSRA 2011, which concerns disqualification from election as a PCC. Section 64 provides that a person is ineligible to stand as a PCC in Wales unless they are 18 years old when nominated as a candidate, and on the date on which the person is nominated and on the date of the poll are registered in the register of local government electors in respect of an address within the police area where the person is standing as a candidate. The amendments amend the references to the electoral register which a candidate in Wales must be registered in, as a consequence of the new provisions on the entitlement to vote in elections of PCCs in Wales inserted by subsection (8).