Police Act 1996

[F1 1 (1) The Secretary of State shall by regulations make provision in relation to the membership of police authorities established under section 3. U.K.

(2) Regulations under this paragraph shall provide for a police authority to consist of—

(a) persons who are members of a relevant council, and

(b) other persons, including at least one lay justice.

(3) Those regulations shall—

(a) specify the number of members falling within paragraph (a) and paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (2), and

(b) secure that the majority of members of a police authority are persons falling within paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph.

(4) Those regulations may make further provision as to qualification for membership, and may provide for a specified number of the members of a police authority to be persons of a specified description.

(5) Those regulations may include provision as to—

(a) how a member is to be appointed;

(b) disqualification for membership;

(c) the tenure of office of a member (including the circumstances in which a member ceases to hold office or may be removed or suspended from office);

(d) re-appointment as a member;

(e) the validity of acts and proceedings of a person appointed as a member in the event of his disqualification or lack of qualification;

(f) the validity of proceedings of a police authority in the event of a vacancy in membership or of a defect in the appointment of a member or in the composition of the authority;

(g) the payment of remuneration and allowances to a member and the reimbursement of expenses.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 substituted (15.1.2007) by Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48), s. 53(1), Sch. 2 para. 2; S.I. 2006/3364, art. 2(b) (with art. 3 and with S.I. 2006/3365, arts. 2, 4, 5)