Guidance for Police Area Returning Officers administering a Police and Crime Commissioner election in England and Wales

Once you have made a decision that a nomination form is valid, that decision cannot be challenged during the election, although it may be challenged after the election by way of an election petition.1

If you have made a formal determination but, as a result of an objection, later decide that the nomination form should in fact have been determined as invalid, you can make a further determination to this effect. 

If a nomination form is determined to be invalid you must:2

• state that fact on the nomination form 
• write on it the reasons for rejection 
• sign the form