4. Notwithstanding the repeal of section 40A of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(1) by paragraph 1(7) of schedule 6 to the Act, that section shall continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2007 for the purpose of enabling the inspectors of constabulary(2) to conduct, or continue to conduct, an examination into the manner in which a chief constable of a police force has handled a complaint made by a member of the public about a constable of that force, provided the request to examine the handling of that matter was made to the inspectors of constabulary before 1st April 2007.
1967 c. 77; section 40A was inserted by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), section 61.
Inspectors of constabulary are appointed by the Scottish Ministers under section 33 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 77).