{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004/schedule-12/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004/schedule-12/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/20",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Before the beginning of each three-year period, the Police Authority must issue a plan setting out the Police Authority’s medium and long term strategies for policing by the Constabulary during that period (the “three-year strategy plan”).\n(2) Before a three year strategy plan for any period is issued, a draft of a plan for that period must have been—\n(a) prepared by the chief constable; and\n(b) submitted by him to the Police Authority for its consideration.\n(3) Before the Police Authority issues a three-year strategy plan which differs from the draft submitted by the chief constable, it must consult him.\n(4) The Police Authority must—\n(a) arrange for every three-year strategy plan to be published in such manner as appears to it to be appropriate; and\n(b) send a copy of every three-year strategy plan to the Secretary of State.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (1), “three-year period” means—\n(a) the period of three successive financial years beginning with 1 April 2024, and\n(b) each subsequent period of three successive financial years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 3(1) substituted (31.1.2024) by Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), ss. 310(1)(a)(i), 334(1); S.I. 2024/32, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 3(1) substituted (31.1.2024) by Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), ss. 310(1)(a)(ii), 334(1); S.I. 2024/32, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 3(5) substituted (31.1.2024) by Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), ss. 310(1)(b), 334(1); S.I. 2024/32, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 3 in force at 1.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/877, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/20/schedule/12/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:05.990250+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}