{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1964/section-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1964/section-4A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/48",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1964",
  "path": "section/4A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Local policing objectives.",
  "text": "(1) Every police authority established under section 3 of this Act shall, before the beginning of each financial year, determine objectives for the policing of the authority’s area during that year.\n(2) Objectives determined under this section may relate to matters to which objectives determined under section 28A of this Act also relate, or to other matters, but in any event shall be so framed as to be consistent with the objectives determined under that section.\n(3) Before determining objectives under this section a police authority shall—\n(a) consult the chief constable for the area, and\n(b) consider any views obtained by it in accordance with arrangements made under section 106 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (arrangements for obtaining the views of the community on policing).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 4, 4A-4C substituted for s. 4 (1.10.1994 for cetain purposes and 1.4.1995 otherwise) by 1994 c. 29, s. 4; S.I. 1994/2025, art. 6; S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4A restricted (12.7.1995) by S.I. 1995/1771, art. 4(3)(b)(ii)S. 4A restricted (12.7.1995) by 1995/1772, art. 4(3)(b)(ii)S. 4A restricted (12.7.1995) by 1995/1773, art. 4(3)(b)(ii)S. 4A restricted (12.7.1995) by 1995/1774, art. 4(3)(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/48/section/4A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:29.550126+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."
}