Police Act 1964

23 Alteration of local government areas

(1) An amalgamation scheme may be approved or made under this Act with respect to a new county or county borough which is to be constituted, or a county or county borough the area of which is to be altered, by an order under section 140 of the Local Government Act 1933 or under Part II of the Local Government Act 1958, and may be so approved or made before the date on which that order comes into force:

Provided that, except so far as it relates to the constitution of the combined police authority and to the performance by that authority of functions necessary for bringing the scheme into full operation on that date, no such scheme shall come into force until the date on which the said order comes into force.

(2) In relation to an amalgamation scheme to be approved or made by virtue of this section, sections 21 and 22 of this Act and the Schedules therein mentioned shall apply subject to any necessary modifications and in particular to the following modifications, that is to say—

(a) any reference to a police area shall include a reference to the area which is to constitute the new or altered county or county borough ;

(b) any reference to a constituent authority shall include a reference to the police authority for any area, and the council for any county or county borough, which is to be wholly or partly included in the area of the new or altered county or county borough ;

(c) in relation to that area, for any reference to the police authority (except a reference to a constituent authority) there shall be substituted—

(i) in the case of a new county, a reference to the police authority for any county or county borough of which the whole or part is to be included in the new county and the council of any such county or county borough which has no separate police authority;

(ii) in the case of a new county borough, a reference to the police authority for any county borough of which the whole or part is to be included in the new county borough, the council of any such county borough which has no separate police authority, and the council of any county district of which the whole or part is to be so included;

(iii) in the case of an altered county or county borough, a reference to the police authority for the existing county or county borough or, if that county or county borough has no separate police authority, to the council of that county or county borough.

(3) In the case of an amalgamation scheme to be approved or made by virtue of this section with respect to any area, any steps required by this Part of this Act to be taken before an amalgamation scheme is approved or made may be taken at any time after notice of proposals affecting that area has been given under section 22(5) or section 24(3) of the Local Government Act 1958 or under paragraph 7(2)(b) of Schedule 8 to that Act, and the Minister of Housing and Local Government has notified the public authorities concerned of the general nature of the order which he intends to make to give effect to those proposals.

(4) An amalgamation scheme may be amended or revoked under this Act notwithstanding that it has been modified by an order under Part VI of the said Act of 1933 or Part II of the said Act of 1958.