Legislation – The Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Citation, commencement, extent and application

2 These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

3 Regulations 5 to 9 and 11 to 14 apply to…

4 Interpretation

PART 2
Postponement of by-elections

5 By-elections of councillors of principal areas

6 By-elections of parish councillors

7 By-elections of directly elected local authority mayors

8 By-elections of combined authority mayors

9 By-elections to the Greater London Authority

10 Police and crime commissioner by-elections

PART 3
Postponement of local polls and referendums

11 Local polls under the Local Government Act 2003

12 Local authority governance change referendums

13 Neighbourhood planning referendums

PART 4
Supplementary provisions

14 Supplementary provision: terms of office of councillors

15 Disapplication of certain provisions relating to elections

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Explanatory note

PART 3Postponement of local polls and referendums

Neighbourhood planning referendums13.

(1)

A referendum that, pursuant to regulation 2A of the Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 201220 (date by which referendum must be held), would otherwise be held, or have been held, during the relevant period is to be held instead on the ordinary day of election in 2021.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to a referendum that has been held on a day during the antecedent period.