Paragraph 2

The transport police shall be organised in a single force for the Railways Board but the services of the Force shall subject to the provisions of this Scheme be made available by the Railways Board to meet the reasonable requirements (if any) of the other Boards and the Railways Board shall use their best endeavours to meet the reasonable requirements of those Boards.

The Force shall be known as “The British Transport Police Force”.

Subject to the provisions of this Scheme all transport police hereafter appointed shall be appointed and employed by the Railways Board and all transport police now appointed shall continue to be employed by the Railways Board.

The property and rights and liabilities which vested in the Railways Board under Section 31(2) of the Transport Act 1962 as being comprised in that part of the undertaking of the British Transport Commission which constituted the British Transport Commission Police Force shall so far as the same are still vested in the Railways Board continue to be so vested but the Railways Board and each of the other Boards may from time to time enter into agreements for the transfer to such other Board of any of the said property in any case where in the opinion of the Boards concerned such transfer is necessary or convenient for the purposes of this Scheme.