1. This Order may be cited as the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st April 2013.
2. Despite their modification by this Order—
(a)paragraph 57(c) (pensions) in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 (tribunals under supervision of Scottish Committee)(1) continues to have effect on and after 1st April 2013 as it had effect immediately before that date for the purposes of an appeal to a tribunal appointed under regulations made under section 1 of the Police Pensions Act 1976(2) by an individual who—
(i)before 1st April 2013 was a constable of a police force maintained under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(3); and
(ii)is not a constable of the Police Service; and
(b)paragraph 57A (police) in that Part of that Schedule(4) continues to have effect on and after 1st April 2013 as it had effect immediately before that date for the purposes of an appeal under section 30 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(5) in relation to which a notice of appeal under the Police Appeals Tribunal (Scotland) Rules 1996(6) was sent to the Registrar (within the meaning given by rule 1(1) of those Rules) before 1st April 2013.
3. Despite the modifications made by this Order, the Schedule to the Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 1985(7) continues to have effect on and after 1st April 2013 as it had effect immediately before that date for the purposes of the Remuneration Report required, by virtue of regulation 4(2) of those Regulations, to be included in the accounts for the financial year ending on 31st March 2013 of any—
(a)local authority; or
(b)joint police board constituted by virtue of section 19(2) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(8).
4. Schedules 1, 2 and 3 modify certain enactments.
KENNY MACASKILL
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
28th March 2013