SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Police reform: transitional provision

Part 4Other transitional provision

24Power to make transitional provision etc

1

The Secretary of State may, by order, make such transitional and transitory provision, and savings, as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with Part 1 of this Act (including provision that supplements or varies the provision made by this Schedule).

2

An order under this paragraph may, in particular—

a

amend, or otherwise modify, any enactment;

b

make any provision that may be made by a transfer scheme under Part 3 of this Schedule (whether the provision in the order relates to that Part or Part 2 of this Schedule);

c

provide for the new policing body for a police area to make any payment which—

i

before a day specified in the order could have been made out of the police fund of the existing police authority for that area, but

ii

is not a liability which is transferred to the new policing body by virtue of Part 2 of this Schedule;

d

provide for a new chief officer or a local authority to which property, rights or liabilities of a new policing body are, or are to be, transferred by virtue of a transfer scheme under Part 3 of this Schedule to make any payment which—

i

before a day specified in the order could have been made out of the police fund of that new policing body, but

ii

is not a liability which could be transferred by virtue of such a transfer scheme;

e

make provision in relation to the accounts and audit of—

i

existing police authorities, and

ii

new policing bodies.

3

Provision of the kind referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(e) may, in particular—

a

amend, or otherwise modify, any enactment relating to the accounts and audit of public bodies in its application to—

i

an existing police authority and the financial year in which that authority is abolished, or

ii

a new policing body and the financial year in which that body is established;

b

provide for the Secretary of State to give directions as to action to be taken in relation to the accounts and audit of—

i

an existing police authority in relation to the financial year in which that authority is abolished, or

ii

a new policing body in relation to the financial year in which that body is established;

c

provide for a person who, in acting in accordance with such a direction, fails to comply with a code of practice or other document relating to proper accounting practice to be taken not to have so failed to comply.