# Police Act 1964, Paragraph 12

Extent: E+W

(1) Where the Secretary of State receives a notice under paragraph 8(3) of this Schedule, he shall as soon as practicable prepare a short-list of candidates and send it to the police authority concerned.
(2) Subject to paragraph 13 of this Schedule, the candidates on the short-list prepared by the Secretary of State shall be persons nominated by the selection panel, and their number shall be one half of the number of those persons.
(3) Where the number of persons nominated by the panel is an odd number, the number to be short-listed by the Secretary of State shall be one half of the number nominated reduced by one.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/48/schedule/1C/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1964/schedule-1C/paragraph-12
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