The Contracting Out (Metropolitan Police and Civil Staffs Pensions) Order 1997

Contracting out of functions

2.—(1) Functions conferred on the Secretary of State, as the police authority for the metropolitan police district, by section 8A of the Police Pensions Act 1976(1) or by any regulations made under section 1 or 8A of that Act may be exercised by, or by the employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State.

(2) Functions conferred on the Secretary of State by section 15(2)(a) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967(2) (superannuation of metropolitan civil staffs) or by provisions (being the principal civil service pension scheme and enactments and instruments relating to civil service pensions) having effect for the purposes of those functions by virtue of section 15(2)(b) of that Act may be exercised by, or by the employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State.

(1)

1976 c. 35; section 1 was amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10) and section 1(1) of the Police and Firemen’s Pensions Act 1997 (c. 52); section 8A was inserted by section 2 of the Police and Firemen’s Pensions Act 1997.

(2)

1967 c. 28; section 15 was amended by sections 14 and 29 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), section 91 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29) and S.I. 1974/520.