Section 44 of the M1Police Act 1996 (power of Secretary of State to require chief constable to submit a report) shall be amended as follows.

In subsection (1), for the words “chief constable” and “chief constable’s” there shall be substituted respectively “ chief officer of police of any police force ” and “ chief officer’s ”.

In subsection (3), for “chief constable” there shall be substituted “ chief officer ”.

In subsection (4), for “Every chief constable” there shall be substituted “ The chief officer of police of every police force ”.

Subsection (5) (which applies the section to the City of London police force and which becomes unnecessary in consequence of the amendments made by the preceding provisions of this paragraph) shall be omitted.