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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tilbury-transfer-scheme-1991-confirmation-order-1992/schedule/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tilbury-transfer-scheme-1991-confirmation-order-1992/schedule/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/284",
  "legislation_title": "The Port of Tilbury Transfer Scheme 1991 Confirmation Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/port-of-tilbury-transfer-scheme-1991-confirmation-order-1992",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Port police federation",
  "text": "(1) The organisation established pursuant to section 159 of the 1968 Act and called the Port of London Police Federation (in this paragraph referred to as “the federation”) shall continue on and after the transfer date by the name of the Port of Tilbury Police Federation for the purpose of representing constables appointed under section 154 of that Act (whether by the Port Authority before the transfer date or by the Company on or after that date) in all matters affecting their welfare and efficiency, other than questions of discipline and promotion affecting individuals.\n(2) The regulations made by the Port Authority under subsection (2)(a) of the said section 159 prescribing the constitution and proceedings of the federation and having effect immediately before the transfer date shall continue to have effect on and after that date–\n(a) as if for any reference (whether express or implied and, if express, however worded) to the Port Authority there were substituted, as respects anything falling to be done on or after that date, a reference to the Company; and\n(b) as if any reference (whether express or implied and, if express, however worded) to a person employed by, or engaged in the business of, the Port Authority and holding a specified office or serving in a specified capacity were, as respects anything falling to be done on or after that date, a reference–\n(i) to such person as the Company may appoint; or\n(ii) in default of appointment, to a person employed by, or engaged in the business of the Company who corresponds as nearly as may be to the person referred to in the regulations.\n(3) On and after the transfer date the Company may after consultation with the federation amend the said regulations and, without prejudice to the generality of that power, amendments made under this sub-paragraph may make provision–\n(a) with respect to the membership of the federation;\n(b) with respect to the raising of funds by the federation by voluntary subscription and the use and management of funds derived from such subscriptions;\n(c) with respect to the manner in which representations may be made to the Company and, in particular, to the directors or to committees of directors or to managers of the Company.\n(4) The federation shall continue to be entirely independent of, and unassociated with, any body or person outside the police service but may employ a person outside that service in an administrative or advisory capacity.\n(5) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a constable appointed under section 154 of the 1968 Act (whether by the Port Authority before the transfer date or by the Company on or after that date) shall not be a member of a trade union or an association having for its objects or one of its objects to control or influence the pay, pensions or conditions of service of police constables:\nProvided that, where the Company is satisfied that there are special circumstances which warrant it, the Company may permit a constable so appointed to be a member of such a trade union or association.\nIN WITNESS whereof the Common Seal of the Port Authority has been hereunto affixed this 29th day of October 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/284/schedule/paragraph/9",
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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."
}