Legislation – The Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020
PART 2Postponement of by-elections
By-elections of directly elected local authority mayors7.
(1)
The poll for an election to fill a casual vacancy in the office of an elected mayor that, pursuant to regulation 9(1) of the 2012 Regulations (filling of casual vacancies), would otherwise be held on a day during the relevant period is to be held instead on the ordinary day of election in 2021.
(2)
If a vacancy referred to in paragraph (1) relates to the office of an elected mayor for which—
(a)
pursuant to regulation 7 of the 2012 Regulations (elections after the second election), an election would have been held on the ordinary day of election in 2021; or
(b)
pursuant to section 60 of the 2020 Act, an election is to be held on that day,
the vacancy is to be filled at the ordinary election on that day and a poll is not to be held to fill the casual vacancy.
(3)
In this regulation—