{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/section-23D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/section-23D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/16",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996",
  "path": "section/23D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23D",
  "heading": "Collaboration agreements: accountability",
  "text": "(1) Where a chief officer makes a collaboration agreement, the policing body responsible for maintaining the force shall hold the chief officer to account for the discharge of functions by anyone who—\n(a) is acting under the terms of the agreement, and\n(b) while so acting, is under the direction and control of the chief officer.\n(2) Before making a collaboration agreement to which a chief officer of police is to be a party, a policing body must notify the chief officer of the arrangements that it proposes to make for the discharge of its functions under this section in connection with the agreement.\n(3) When deciding what arrangements to make, the policing body shall, in particular, make arrangements for those functions to be discharged jointly with another policing body responsible for maintaining a force whose chief officer is a party to the agreement.\n(4) The functions conferred on a policing body under this section do not affect any other function of holding a chief officer to account.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 23-23I substituted for s. 23 (12.3.2010) by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), ss. 5, 116(1); S.I. 2010/507, art. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D(1) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 12 para. 6(2)(a); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D(1) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 12 para. 6(2)(b); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D(2) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 12 para. 6(3); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D(3) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 12 para. 6(4)(a); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 23D(3) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 12 para. 6(4)(b); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 23D(4) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 12 para. 6(5); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 22A-23H: power to apply conferred (28.1.2016 for specified purposes, 28.3.2016 in so far as not already in force) by 2009 c. 20, Sch. 5C para. 11(1)(b) (as inserted by Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1), s. 25(2), Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/23D",
    "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."
}