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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3262",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1994",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE 1994 ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST APRIL 1995",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provisions\nSection 1\nPolice areas\nSection 2\nPolice forces and police authorities\nSection 3\nMembership of police authorities etc.\nSection 4\nFunctions of police authorities\nSection 5\nChief constables\nSection 6\nDeputy and assistant chief constables\nSection 7\nOther members of police forces\nSection 8\nPolice fund\nSection 9\nSupply of goods and services\nSection 10\nCivilian employees\nSection 11\nAppointment of officers\nSection 12\nQuestions by local councillors\nSection 14\nAlteration of police areas\nSection 15\nFunctions of Secretary of State\nSection 16\nReports from police authorities\nSection 20\nInspectors of constabulary\nSection 21\nReports from inspectors of constabulary\nSection 23\nCommon services\nSection 24\nGrants by local authorities\nSection 26\nPolice officers employed on service outside their force\nSection 29\nDirections as to minimum budget\nSection 30\nRevenue accounts and capital finance\nSection 31\nFinancial administration\nIn section 39, subsections (2) and (30\nPolice areas in England: alterations under the Local Government Act 1992\nSection 40\nPolice areas in Wales: alterations under the Local Government Act 1972\nSection 43\nApplication to police authorities of enactments relating to local authorities etc.\nSection 44\nMinor and consequential amendments, so far as it relates to the paragraphs of Schedule 5 specified below\nSection 45\nApplication of certain provisions to new authorities\nSection 93\nRepeals, so far as it relates to the entries in Part I of Schedule 9 specified below\nSchedule 1\nSchedule to be inserted in Police Act 1964: Police areas\nSchedule 2\nSchedules to be inserted in Police Act 1964: Police authorities\nSchedule 4\nApplication to police authorities of enactments relating to local authorities\nIn Part I of Schedule 5, paragraphs 2 to 7, 9, 10(2), 13, 14 and 15\nMinor and consequential amendments of the 1964 Act\nIn Part II of Schedule 5, paragraphs 17 to 20, 22, 23, 24(a), 29, 30, 35, 36, 37 and 38\nPolice: minor and consequential amendments of other enactments\nIn Part I of Schedule 9, all of the entries so far as they relate to enactments as they apply in England and Wales except those in respect of the following enactments—\nthe Metropolitan Police Act 1856;\nthe Licensing Act 1902;\nsections 12, 33(5), 53(1) and 60 of the 1964 Act;\nthe Police Negotiating Board Act 1980;\nsections 67(8), 85(8), 90(3), (4), (6) and (8), 91, 92, 94, 97(4), 99(2), 101, 103, 104(1) and (2) and 105 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\nsection 30(2) of the Local Government Act 1985;\nthe Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986;\nthe Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; and\nthe Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.\nRepeals: police",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "19 & 20 Vict. c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2 Edw. 7 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1985 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1986 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1990 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1970 c. 9 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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