Regulation 4 Amendment to the Police Authority Regulations

For regulation 8 of the Police Authority Regulations (appointment of members by relevant councils) substitute—

“8.

Subject to regulation 8A, a relevant council or joint committee shall exercise its power to appoint members of a police authority under regulation 6(1)(a) or 6(2)(a) so as to ensure that, so far as reasonably practicable—

(a)

where—

(i)

a person has been returned at an election as the elected mayor of a relevant council under Part 2 of the Local Government Act 2000^f1;

(ii)

both that person and the council indicate that they wish the person to be appointed as a member of the police authority in relation to which the council is the relevant council,

that person is so appointed, and

(b)

in the case of the remaining members for whose appointments it is responsible, the proportion (taking into account any appointment under sub-paragraph (a)) who are members of any given party—

(i)

where it is a council that is responsible for their appointment, is the same as the proportion of the members of the council who are members of that party; and

(ii)

where it is a joint committee that is so responsible, is the same as the proportion of the members of the relevant councils taken as a whole who are members of that party.”.