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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-police-officers-order-1974/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/551",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Police Officers Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-police-officers-order-1974",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "SPECIAL CONSTABLES",
  "text": "1\n2\nSpecial constables for existing police areas\nNew police areas\n1. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Somerset and Bath police area;\n(b) All special constables appointed for the existing county borough of Bristol police area;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing Gloucestershire police areas as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Avon and Somerset and of Gloucestershire.\n1. Avon and Somerset\n2. All special constables appointed for the existing Bedfordshire and Luton police area.\n2. Bedfordshire\n3. All special constables appointed for the existing Mid-Anglia police area.\n3. Cambridgeshire\n4. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Cheshire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of Derbyshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Lancashire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.\n4. Cheshire\n5. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing county borough of Teeside police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Durham police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cleveland and Durham;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing York and North-East Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cleveland and North Yorkshire.\n5. Cleveland\n6. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Cumbria police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Lancashire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cumbria and Lancashire;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police area of Cumbria and North Yorkshire.\n6. Cumbria\n7. (a) All the special constables appointed for the existing Derby county and borough police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Cheshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cheshire and Derbyshire.\n7. Derbyshire\n8. All special constables appointed for the existing Devon and Cornwall police area.\n8.Devon and Cornwall.\n9. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Dorset and Bournemouth police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Hampshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Dorset and Hampshire.\n9. Dorset\n10. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Durham police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of Cleveland and Northumbria;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing York and North-East Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Durham and North Yorkshire.\n10. Durham\n11. All special constables appointed for the existing Dyfed-Powys police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of Gwent and South Wales.\n11. Dyfed-Powys\n12. All special constables appointed for the existing Essex and Southend-on-Sea joint police area.\n12. Essex\n13. All special constables appointed for the existing Gloucestershire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of Avon and Somerset.\n13. Gloucestershire\n14. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Manchester and Salford police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Cheshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cheshire and Greater Manchester;\n(c) Such special constable appointed for the existing Lancashire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cheshire Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside;\n(d) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.\n14. Greater Manchester\n15. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Gwent police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of South Wales;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Dyfed-Powys police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Dyfed-Powys and Gwent.\n15. Gwent\n16. All special constables appointed for the existing Hampshire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of Dorset.\n16. Hampshire\n17. All special constables appointed for the existing Hertfordshire police area.\n17. Hertfordshire\n18. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing county borough of Kingston-upon-Hull police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing York and North-East Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Humberside and North Yorkshire;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing Lincolnshire police area as maybe agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Humberside and Lincoln shire;\n(d) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Humberside, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.\n18. Humberside\n19. All special constables appointed for the existing Kent police area.\n19. Kent\n20. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Lancashire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Lancashire and North Yorkshire.\n20. Lancashire\n21. All special constables appointed for the exiting Leicester and Rutland police area.\n21. Leicestershire\n22. All special constables appointed for the existing Lincolnshire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of Humberside.\n22. Lincolnshire\n23. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Liverpool and Bootle police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Cheshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cheshire and Merseyside;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing Lancashire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for th new police areas of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.\n23. Merseyside\n24. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Norfolk joint police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Suffolk police areas as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Norfolk and Suffolk.\n24. Norfolk\n25. All special constables appointed for the existing Gwynedd police area.\n25. North Wales\n26. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing York and North-East Yorkshire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of Cleveland, Durham and Humberside;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Cumbria, Humberside, Lancashire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.\n26. North Yorkshire\n27. All special constables appointed for the existing Northampton and County police area.\n27. Northamptonshire\n28. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Northumberland police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Durham police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Durham and Northumbria.\n28. Northumbria\n29. All special constables appointed for the existing Nottinghamshire combined police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of South Yorkshire.\n29. Nottinghamshire\n30. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing South Wales police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Dyfed-Powys police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Dyfed-Powys and South Wales;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing Gwent police areas as maybe agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Gwent and South Wales.\n30. South Wales\n31. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Sheffield and Rotherham police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Yorkshire police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing Nottinghamshire combined police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.\n31. South Yorkshire\n32. All special constables appointed for the existing Staffordshire County and Stoke-on Trent police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of West Midlands.\n32. Staffordshire\n33. All special constables appointed for the existing Suffolk police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of Norfolk.\n33. Suffolk\n34. All special constables appointed for the existing Surrey police area, except those becoming special constable for the new police area of Sussex.\n34. Surrey.\n35. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing Sussex police area;\n(b) Such special constables appointed for the existing Surrey police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Surrey and Sussex.\n35. Sussex\n36. All special constables appointed for the existing Warwickshire and Coventry police, area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of West Midlands.\n36. Warwickshire\n37. All special constables appointed for the existing West Mercia police, area, except those becoming special constables for the new police area of West Midlands.\n37. West Mercia\n38. (a) all special constables appointed for the existing West Midlands police area;\n(b) all special constables appointed for the existing country borough of Birmingham police area;\n(c) Such special constables appointed for the existing Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Staffordshire and West Midlands;\n(d) Such special constables appointed for the existing West Mercia police area as may be agreed between the police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of West Mercia and West Midlands;\n(e) Such special constables appointed for the existing Warwickshire and Coventry police area as may be agreed between the police authorities for the new police areas of Warwickshire and West Midlands.\n38. West Midlands\n39. (a) All special constables appointed for the existing county borough of Bradford police area;\n(b) All special constables appointed for the existing county borough of Leeds police area;\n(c) All special constables appointed for the existence West Yorkshire police area, except those becoming special constables for the new police areas of Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Humberside, Lancashire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.\n39. West Yorkshire\n40. All special constables appointed for the existing Wiltshire police area.\n40. Wiltshire",
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