Section 3.
1In relation to a combined police authority constituted as a committee of the council of a county or county borough the provisions of this Act shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this Schedule.
2Subsections (6) and (7) of section 2 shall apply to the combined police authority as if it were a committee appointed under that section and section 3(3) shall not apply.
3Notwithstanding anything in section 21(3) and Schedule 8, there shall be no combined police fund but the police fund for the combined area shall be the local fund of the county or county borough and the amalgamation scheme shall make provision for the payment into that fund, out of the local funds of the other areas comprised in the combined area, of contributions assessed in accordance with the provisions of the scheme.
4Sections 8(2) and 9(3) shall not apply, and subsections (3) and (4) of section 8 and subsections (1), (2) and (4) of section 9 shall apply as if the police area consisted only of the county or county borough.
5The council of the county or county borough shall have the same power under section 10(1) as if the combined police force were maintained only for the county or county borough.
6Any provision made under section 21(3)(e) may be for transfer to the council of the county or county borough instead of to the combined police authority, and for the use of any transferred property by that council instead of, or as well as, that authority.
7In relation to an amalgamation scheme to be approved or made by virtue of section 23 of this Act—
(a)the reference in subsection (4) of section 3 of this Act to a committee of one of the constituent councils shall include a reference to a committee of the council of the new or altered county or county borough; and
(b)the request required by that subsection shall include the request of each of the following councils, that is to say—
(i)in the case of a new county, the councils of any counties or county boroughs of which the whole or part is to be included in the new county ;
(ii)in the case of a new county borough, the council of any county borough or county district of which the whole or part is to be so included ;
(iii)in the case of an altered county or county borough, the council of the existing county or county borough.