SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 27Further amendments relating to metropolitan police etc

The Police (Property) Act 1897

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1

Section 2 of the [1897 c. 30.] Police Property Act 1897 (regulations with respect to unclaimed property in possession of the police) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (2B) (meaning of “the relevant authority”)—

a

in paragraph (a) (police areas in England and Wales, other than the metropolitan police district) the words “listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 or the City of London police area”, and

b

paragraph (b) (in relation to the metropolitan police district, the Receiver),

shall cease to have effect.