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PART 1General Provisions

Citation, commencement, interpretation and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Authority Regulations 2008 and subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) shall come into force on 1st April 2008.

(2) Regulation 4 shall come into force on 1st October 2008.

(3) These Regulations shall apply only in respect of appointments of members of police authorities that take effect on or after 1st October 2008(1).

2.  In these Regulations

“the 1994 Regulations” means the Police Authorities (Selection Panel) Regulations 1994(2)

“the 1996 Act” means the Police Act 1996

3.  These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

Revocations and transitional provisions

4.  The 1994 Regulations are revoked.

5.—(1) Persons appointed under current paragraph 2 (appointment of police authority members by relevant councils) of Schedule 2 to the 1996 Act whose term of office under that Schedule expires on or after 1st October 2008 shall be treated as a person appointed under regulation 7 until the expiry of that term.

(2) Persons appointed under current paragraph 5 (appointment of independent members of police authorities) of Schedule 2 to the 1996 Act whose term of office under that Schedule expires on or after 1st October 2008 shall be treated as a person appointed under regulation 9 until the expiry of that term.

(3) A term of office of a person appointed under current paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the 1996 Act shall be treated as a term of office of a person appointed under regulation 9 for the purposes of regulation 20(2).

(4) Persons appointed under paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 3(3) (police authorities: selection of independent members) to the 1996 Act shall be treated as persons appointed under regulation 32(a) until the expiry of their term of office under that Schedule.

(5) The record maintained by a selection panel under regulation 7 (record maintained by the panel) of the 1994 Regulations of persons who have applied to be considered for appointment as a member of a police authority shall be treated as a record maintained under regulation 44 of these Regulations.

(6) For persons appointed under these Regulations prior to 1st April 2009 regulation 19 shall apply as if for “of four years” there were substituted “expiring on 31st March 2013”.

(1)

Article 3 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No.1, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3364 as amended by S.I. 2008/617 (C.24)) provides that the previous Schedule 2 to the 1996 Act applies to appointments that take effect before 1st October 2008.

(3)

Schedule 3 to the Police Act 1996 was repealed by paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Police and Justice Act 2006.