Section 3A Membership of police authorities etc.F1
England and Wales
Subject to subsection (2) of this section, each police authority established under section 3 of this Act shall consist of seventeen members.
The Secretary of State may by order provide in relation to a police authority specified in the order that the number of its members shall be a specified odd number greater than seventeen.
A statutory instrument containing an order made under subsection (2) of this section shall be laid before Parliament after being made.
Schedules 1B and 1C to this Act shall have effect in relation to police authorities established under section 3 and the appointment of their members.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Ss. 3A, 3B inserted (21.7.1994 and 8.8.1994 for certain purposes and 1.4.1995 for all other purposes) by 1994 c. 29, ss. 3(1), 94(3)(a); S.I. 1994/2025, art. 4(2)(b); S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act (except ss. 37, 60-65, Sch. 5 and the provisions of Sch. 9 other than the entry relating to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103(3), 104(1), Sch. 9 Pt. I
Ss. 37, 60-62, 64 (except subsection (2)), 65(2)-(4), Sch. 5 repealed (1.4.1999) by 1996 c. 16, s. 103(3), Sch. 9 Pt. II; S.I. 1999/533, art. 2(a)
Notes on Part I
Modifications
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Pt. I(ss. 1-27) restricted (6.3.1992) by Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 18(4)(a)
Notes on Forces outside London
Textual amendments
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Ss. 2, 3 and crossheading preceding s. 2 substituted for s. 2, 2A, 3 (8.8.1994 to the extent s. 3 is substituted and 1.4.1995 otherwise) by 1994 c. 29, s. 2; S.I. 1994/2025, art. 4; S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch.