SCHEDULE 5Transfer of constables, staff and property etc.
Property transfer scheme: transfers to local authorities
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(1)
The Scottish Ministers may make a local authority property transfer scheme.
(2)
A local authority property transfer scheme is a scheme making provision for or in connection with the transfer to a specified local authority of property, rights, liabilities and obligations of a joint police board.
(3)
A joint police board must provide the Scottish Ministers with such information or assistance as they may reasonably require for the purposes of or in connection with the making of a local authority property transfer scheme.
(4)
On the transfer date—
(a)
any property or rights to which a local authority property transfer scheme applies transfers to and vests in the specified local authority,
(b)
any liabilities or obligations to which such a scheme applies become liabilities or obligations of the specified local authority.
(5)
A local authority property transfer scheme may make provision for the payment by a local authority of compensation in respect of property and rights transferred by virtue of the scheme.
(6)
In this paragraph, “specified” means specified in the local authority property transfer scheme.