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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996/article-43",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Eccles Extension) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Power to contract for police services",
  "text": "(1) Agreements may be made—\n(a) between the undertaker and the chief officer of police of any police force and the police authority, or\n(b) between the undertaker and the railways board,\nfor making available to the undertaker for the purposes of the operation of its transit system undertaking the services of members of the police force or, as the case may be, members of the British Transport Police Force on such terms as to payment or otherwise, and subject to such conditions, as the parties to them think fit.\n(2) In this article—\n(a) “chief officer of police”, “police authority” and “police force” have the same meaning as in the Police Act 1964, and\n(b) “the British Transport Police Force” means the force organised under the British Transport Police Scheme 1963.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The British Transport Police Scheme 1963 is contained in the Schedule to the British Transport Police Force Scheme 1963 (Approval) Order 1964 (S.I. 1964/1456). The scheme was subsequently amended by the British Transport Police Force Scheme 1963 (Amendment) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/364) and continues in force, as if made under section 132 of the Railways Act 1993 (c. 43), by virtue of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 10 to that Act. The scheme was subsequently further amended by the British Transport Police Force Scheme 1963 (Amendment) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/609) and the text of the scheme, as amended, is set out in the Schedule to that Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1936",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1266",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Airport Extension) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/2587",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Second City Crossing) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/1035",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Trafford Park Extension) Order 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2714/article/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:17.409589+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."
}