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The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

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County police authorities

8.  After regulation 22 add–

Modifications for county police authorities

23.  

(1) In their application in accordance with regulation 21 to a body described in paragraph 2(1)(c) of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act (county police authorities), section 15(2), (3) and (5) of the 1989 Act and Part III of these Regulations shall be modified in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In addition to any political group constituted of members of the county council, any two or more members of the police authority who are not members of the council may constitute a separate political group; and in relation to such members of the authority and such a political group regulations 8 to 15 shall apply as they apply in relation to members of the county council and political groups constituted by them.

(3) Section 15(2) shall apply as if for paragraphs (a) and (b) there were substituted–

(a)where the county council of which the police authority described in paragraph 2(1)(c) of Schedule 1 to this Act is a committee is divided into different political groups on 8th July 1991, at (or as soon as practicable after) the first meeting of the police authority after that date;

(b)where that county council is divided into different political groups, at, or as soon as practicable after, the first meeting of the police authority after the annual meeting of the council held in pursuance of paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972;

(c)as soon as practicable after the division of that county council into political groups occurs;

(d)as soon as practicable after any occasion on which members of the police authority who are members of the county council are changed as a result of a review under this section; and

(e)as soon as practicable after any change in the number of political groups into which the police authority is divided..

(4) Section 15(3) shall apply as if the reference to the groups into which the members of the relevant authority are divided included any additional group constituted in accordance with paragraph (2).

(5) Section 15(5)(b) shall apply as if “police” were inserted before “authority's”.

(6) Section 15(5)(d) shall apply as if for “to the membership of the authority” there were substituted “with seats on the police authority to the total of all the seats on the police authority.”.

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