Police and Justice Act 2006

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Police and Justice Act 2006

An Act to establish a National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about police forces and police authorities and about police pensions; to make provision about police powers and about the powers and duties of community support officers, weights and measures inspectors and others; to make provision about the supply to the police and others of information contained in registers of death; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to make further provision about certain inspectorates; to amend Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990; to make provision about the forfeiture of indecent images of children; to provide for the conferring of functions on the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the exercise of enforcement functions by officials involved with immigration and asylum; to amend the Extradition Act 2003; to make further provision about the use of live links in criminal proceedings; and for connected purposes.

[8 th November 2006]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Part 1 Police reform

National Policing Improvement Agency

1 National Policing Improvement Agency

(1) There is to be a body corporate to be known as the National Policing Improvement Agency.

(2) The following are abolished—

(a) the Central Police Training and Development Authority;

(b) the Police Information Technology Organisation.

(3) Schedule 1 (further provision about the National Policing Improvement Agency, and related amendments) has effect.

Police forces and police authorities

2 Amendments to the Police Act 1996

Schedule 2 (which makes amendments to the Police Act 1996 (c. 16)) has effect.

3 Delegation of police authority functions

(1) Section 107 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) (application to police authorities of provisions about discharge of local authority functions) is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (3 A) there is inserted—

“(3 B) Section 101 above, in its application to a police authority, shall have effect as if a reference in subsection (1) , (2) , (4) or (5) to an officer of an authority included a reference to a member of that authority.”

(3) For subsection (4) there is substituted—

“(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision regulating the power of a police authority under section 101 above to arrange for the discharge of their functions by a committee, sub-committee, officer or member of the authority as respects part only of their area.

(4 A) Regulations under subsection (4) may in particular—

(a) impose limitations or restrictions on the functions which may be the subject of arrangements of the kind referred to in that subsection;

(b) make provision as to the membership or chairmanship of any committee or sub-committee discharging functions under such arrangements;

(c) impose limitations or restrictions on which officers or members of a police authority may discharge functions under such arrangements.

(4 B) A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (4) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.”

(4) Subsection (6) (members of police authority committees must be authority members) is omitted.

4 Police authorities as best value authorities

(1) In section 1 of the Local Government Act 1999 (c. 27) (authorities that are best value authorities)—

(a) in subsection (1) , at the beginning of paragraph (d) there is inserted “(subject to subsection (8))”;

(b) in subsection (4) , for “subsection (1)(d)” there is substituted “this section”;

(d) after subsection (7) there is inserted—

“(8) A police authority is not a best value authority for the purposes of the following provisions of this Part—

section 5 (best value reviews);

section 6 (best value performance plans);

sections 7 to 9 (audit of best value performance plans);

section 13(5) (requirement of best value performance plan to record fact of adverse report etc);

section 15(2)(a) and (b) (directions relating to best value performance plans).”

(2) A reference in any provision contained in or made under any Act other than the Local Government Act 1999 (c. 27) to an authority that is a best value authority for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act includes, if the context allows, a police authority.

Police pension schemes

5 Power to merge schemes

Schedule 3 (power to merge police pension schemes) has effect.

Statutory consultation requirements

6 Consultation with APA and ACPO

(1) Schedule 4 (which amends provisions requiring consultation with persons representing the interests of...

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