Notice of Election

Notice of Election – Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex Police Area

1. An election is to be held for a Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for the Essex Police
Area.

2. Forms of nomination may be obtained from the office of the Police Area Returning Officer,
Colchester Town Hall, High Street, Colchester, CO1 1PJ, during the times stated below.

3. Nomination papers must be delivered to the Police Area Returning Officer at Colchester
Town Hall, High Street, Colchester, CO1 1PJ on any working day after the date of this
notice, on Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. (excluding bank holidays) but no
later than 4 p.m. on Friday 5 April 2024.

4. A deposit of £5,000 must be paid for each candidate by either legal tender, electronic
bank transfer or banker’s draft from a bank which carries on business in the United Kingdom.

5. If the election is contested the poll will take place on Thursday, 2 May 2024 between the
hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.

6. The last day to submit an application to be included on the electoral register to be used at
this election is midnight on Tuesday 16 April 2024. Applications can also be made online
www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. For electors voting in polling stations there is a legal
requirement to take a prescribed form of photographic identification to vote. A full list of the
prescribed forms of photographic identification is available on the relevant local authority
website. For those who require a Voter Authority Certificate or an Anonymous Elector
Document to meet the requirement for photographic identification, applications can be made
at www.voter-authority-certificate.service.gov.uk/.

7. Applications, amendments or cancellations of postal votes and amendments or
cancellations of proxy votes must reach the Electoral Registration Officer for the relevant
electoral area (i.e. the local authority area) where the elector is registered to vote by 5 p.m.
on Wednesday, 17 April 2024.

8. New applications to vote by proxy at this election must reach the Electoral Registration
Officer for the relevant electoral area (i.e. the local authority area) where the elector is
registered to vote by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 April 2024.

9. Applications to vote by emergency proxy at this election – applied for on grounds of a
medical emergency (occurring after 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 April 2024), because of
work/service reasons (occurring after 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 April 2024) or the form of
acceptable photographic identification that you were intending to use to vote has been lost,
stolen, damaged or destroyed, or has not yet been received if applied for recently – must
reach the Electoral Registration Officer at the address for the relevant electoral area (i.e. the
local authority area) by 5.00 p.m. on Thursday, 2 May 2024.

10. For the purposes of paragraphs 6, 7, 8 and 9 above, the address of the Electoral
Registration Officer for electors and residents of the District of Tendring is the Elections
Office, Democratic Services & Elections, Town Hall, Station Road, Clacton-on-Sea, CO15
1SE (although electors and residents may also contact them by email to
elections@tendringdc.gov.uk, telephone on 01255 686575 or via the website at
www.tendringdc.gov.uk/elections).