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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

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17Duties when carrying out functions
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(1)In carrying out functions, an elected local policing body must have regard to the views of people in the body’s area about policing in that area.

(2)In carrying out functions in a particular financial year, an elected local policing body must have regard to any report or recommendations made by the relevant police and crime panel on the annual report for the previous financial year (see section 28(4)).

(3)Subsection (2) does not affect any exercise of the functions of the elected local policing body in any part of a particular financial year that falls—

(a)before the body has received a report or recommendations on the annual report for the previous financial year, or

(b)during the period after receipt of a report or recommendations when the body is considering the report or recommendations.

(4)In carrying out functions, an elected local policing body must have regard to any financial code of practice issued by the Secretary of State.

(5)The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of any financial code of practice.

(6)The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a copy of—

(a)any financial code of practice, and

(b)any revision of a financial code of practice.

(7)In this section “financial code of practice” means a code of practice relating to the proper administration by elected local policing bodies of their financial affairs.

(8)This section is in addition to the duty under section 8 to have regard to the police and crime plan.

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