Article 11 The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999
The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999f1 shall be amended as follows.
In regulation 4 the definition of “the Assistant Commissioner” shall be omittedf2.
In regulation 34(1) for “the Assistant Commissioner” there shall be substituted “an assistant commissioner”.
For regulation 37(3) there shall be substituted—
“(3)Where the member concerned is a member of the metropolitan police force the review shall be conducted by an assistant commissioner who is not an interested party.”.
Annotations
Footnotes
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S.I. 1999/730.
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Section 8 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1856 under which an assistant commissioner was authorised to act for the Commissioner is repealed by paragraph 2 of Schedule 27 to the Act. Section 319 of the Act inserts new section 9F into the Police Act 1996 on the appointment and functions of assistant commissioners. Section 317 of the Act inserts a new section 9D into the 1996 Act which creates the rank of Deputy Commissioner and provides (inter alia) that he shall have all the powers and duties of an assistant commissioner.