3(1)Section 12 (collaboration agreements) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (3), for “Secretary of State” substitute “ Scottish Ministers ”.
(3)For subsection (5) substitute—
“(5)If it appears to the Scottish Ministers that an agreement should be made for the purposes specified in subsection (1), (2) or (4) of this section, they may, after considering any representations made by the parties concerned, direct those parties to enter into such agreement for that purpose as may be specified in the directions.
(6)For the purposes of this section—
(a)the British Transport Police Force shall be treated as if it were a police force;
(b)“police functions” shall include the functions of the British Transport Police Force;
(c)the British Transport Police Committee shall be treated as if it were the police authority maintaining that Force for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) of this section and the Strategic Rail Authority shall be so treated for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section; and
(d)“police area”, in relation to the British Transport Police Force and the British Transport Police Committee, means those places where members of the British Transport Police Force have the powers, protection and privileges of a constable under section 53(4) of the British Transport Commission Act 1949 (c. xxix).
(7)In relation to agreements relating to the British Transport Police Force, any determination under subsection (3) shall be made, and any directions under subsection (5) shall be given, by the Scottish Ministers and the Secretary of State, acting jointly.”