Part 1Police reform

CHAPTER 3Functions of elected local policing bodies etc

Financial matters

24Police grant

(1)

Section 46 of the Police Act 1996 (police grant) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

F1(a)

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(b)

for the words after paragraph (b) substitute—

“and in those provisions a reference to a grant recipient is a reference to a police and crime commissioner, the Common Council or the Greater London Authority.”.

(3)

In subsection (2)(b), for “authority” substitute “ grant recipient ”.

(4)

In subsection (4), for “police authorities” substitute “ grant recipients ”.

(5)

In subsection (5), for “different authorities or different classes of authority” substitute “ different grant recipients or different classes of grant recipient ”.

(6)

In subsection (7), for “police authority” substitute “ grant recipient ”.

(7)

In subsection (7A)—

(a)

for “Metropolitan Police Authority” substitute “ Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime ”;

(b)

for “that Authority” substitute “ that Office ”.

(8)

In subsection (8)—

(a)

for “an authority's” substitute “ a grant recipient's ”;

(b)

for “the authority” substitute “ the grant recipient ”;

(c)

for “an authority” substitute “ a grant recipient ”.

(9)

In subsection (9), for “Metropolitan Police Authority” substitute “ Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime ”.