{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/section-75",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/13",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011",
  "path": "section/75",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "The appropriate officer",
  "text": "(1) For each police area, other than the metropolitan police district, the Secretary of State ... must by order designate a local authority.\n(2) In this Chapter, the “appropriate officer”, means—\n(a) in relation to a police area in England, the head of paid service of the local authority designated for that police area;\n(b) in relation to a police area in Wales, the chief executive of the local authority designated for that police area.\n(3) In this section—\n“chief executive” means the person appointed by a county council or county borough council in Wales under section 54 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021;\n“local authority” means—\n(a)a district council,\n(b)a county council in England for a county in which there are no district councils,\n(c)the Council of the Isles of Scilly,\n(d)a county council or county borough council in Wales;\n“head of paid service”, in relation to a council in England, means the person designated by the council under section 4(1)(a) of the Local Government Act 1989.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(1) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 22(4)(f) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 75(2)(a)(b) substituted (5.5.2022) for words by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 5 para. 16(a); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(s)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(3) inserted (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 5 para. 16(b)(i); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(s)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(3) inserted (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 5 para. 16(b)(ii); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(s)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 71-75 excluded (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/470), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 21(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 75(1) functions to be exercisable concurrently with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (12.8.2015) by The Transfer of Functions (Police and Crime Commissioner Elections) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1526), arts. 1(2), 3(1)(2)(h) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 75 in force at 25.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1129, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/13/section/75",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:27.716276+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."
}