Thames Valley (Police Authority) Order 1997
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1997/1848 |
| Year | 1997 |
1997 No. 1848
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALESPOLICE
The Thames Valley (Police Authority) Order 1997
Made 28th July 1997
Laid before Parliament 5th August 1997
Coming into force 1st October 1997
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17 and 26 of the Local Government Act 19921hereby makes the following Order:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Thames Valley (Police Authority) Order 1997.
(2) In this Order “1996 Act” means the Police Act 19962.
(3) This Order shall come into force on 1st October 1997.
2.—(1) The functions to which this Order applies—
(a)
(a) all functions of the Thames Valley police authority on or after 1st April 1998; and
(b)
(b) before that date (but on or after 1st October 1997), the functions of that police authority in respect of the financial year beginning on 1st April 1998 under—
(i) Chapter IV of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (precepts)3, and
(ii) sections 7 (local policing objectives) and 8 (local policing plans) of the 1996 Act.
(2) For the purposes of the functions to which this Order applies—
(a)
(a) paragraph 26(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1996 Act (meaning of “relevant council”) shall have effect from 1st October 1997 as if Berkshire County Council had been wound up and dissolved on that date; and
(b)
(b) accordingly, the appointments which are required to be made to the Thames Valley police authority by paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule (appointments of members of police authority by joint committee appointed by relevant councils) shall be made, as soon as practicable after that date, by a joint committee appointed by the County Councils of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the Councils of the Borough of Milton Keynes and of each district in the County of Berkshire (as relevant councils) in accordance with that provision.
(3) For the purposes of the functions referred to in paragraph (1)(b) above—
(a)
(a) section 19(2)(b) of the 1996 Act (approval of decisions about precepts) shall have effect as though the reference to the members of the police authority appointed under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to that Act was a reference to the members so appointed by virtue of paragraph (2) above; and
(b)
(b) the members of the Thames Valley police authority appointed under paragraph 2 of that...
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