Transitory: consultation requirements6.

(1)

This article has effect until the day on which paragraph 33(11) of schedule 7 to the 2012 Act (interpretation) comes into force.

(2)

For the purposes of section 66 of the 2012 Act (investigations: procedure), the following terms in the section inserted by that section have the following meanings—

“chief constable” means the chief constable appointed under section 7 of the 2012 Act;

“senior officers” means chief constables, deputy chief constables and assistant chief constables of police forces established under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967;

“superintendents” and “chief superintendents” mean superintendents and chief superintendents of police forces established under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967; and

“the Authority” means the Scottish Police Authority.