{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/16",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Supply of goods and services.",
  "text": "(1) Subsections (1) to (3) of section 1 of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (c. 39)(supply of goods and services by local authorities)—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) shall, in their application to the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as the police authority for the City of London police force , apply with the modification set out in subsection (2).\n(2) The modification is that references in those subsections to a public body shall be read as references to any person.\n(3) The Common Council in its capacity as police authority may not enter into an agreement with another local policing body under section 1 of the 1970 Act in respect of a matter which could be the subject of force collaboration provision in a collaboration agreement .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 18 substituted (1.10.2002) by Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), ss. 101, 108(2)-(5); S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(f)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 18(1)(a) omitted (16.1.2012) by virtue of Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 18(2); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 para. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(b) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 18(3)(a); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(b) inserted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 18(3)(b); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 18(3) inserted (12.3.2010) by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), s. 116(1), Sch. 7 para. 5; S.I. 2010/507, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 18(4)(a); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 18(4)(b); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 18(4)(c); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:17.766939+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."
}