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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Police Act 1976 (c. 46)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Police Act 1976

1976 CHAPTER 46

An Act to Establish a Police Complaints Board with functions relating to complaints from the public against members of police forces in England and Wales; to amend the law relating to the discipline of those forces; and for connected purposes.

[6 August 1976]

Part I Complaints Against the Police

1 The Police Complaints Board

(1)—(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(5)The Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the Board.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1(1)–(4), 2–13, 14(2) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

2—9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1(1)–(4), 2–13, 14(2) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

Part II

10—12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1(1)–(4), 2–13, 14(2) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

Part III Supplementary

13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1(1)–(4), 2–13, 14(2) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

14 Short title and extent

(1)This Act may be cited as the Police Act 1976.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1(1)–(4), 2–13, 14(2) repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

Section 1(5).

SCHEDULE The Police Complaints Board

1, 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Sch. paras. 1–3, 5–13 repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

Members

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Sch. paras. 1–3, 5–13 repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

4The Secretary of State may pay, or make such payments towards the provision of, such . . . F1, pensions, . . . F1, or gratuities to or in respect of members of the Board or any of them as, with the consent of [F2the Treasury], he may determine.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Word repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

F2Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(1)(c), 3(5)

5—11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Sch. paras. 1–3, 5–13 repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

Finance

12, 13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Sch. paras. 1–3, 5–13 repealed by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 7 Pt. VI

14Any sums required by the Secretary of State for making payments under this Schedule shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.