4.—(1) The Authority must provide the Scottish Ministers with such reports, statistics or other information relating to a predecessor body or predecessor police force as they may reasonably require.
(2) Such information may, in particular, relate to—
(a)a predecessor body or its functions;
(b)a predecessor police force or its functions;
(c)the state of crime before 1st April 2013.
(3) The chief constable must provide the Authority with such reports, statistics or other information relating to—
(a)a predecessor police force or its functions;
(b)a predecessor body or its functions, to the extent the chief constable holds the statistics or other information in question;
(c)the state of crime before 1st April 2013,
as it may reasonably require.
(4) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 84 of the 2012 Act apply to a requirement made under paragraph (3) as they do to a requirement made under section 84(3) of that Act.
(5) Subsections (8) to (10) of section 84 of the 2012 Act apply to any requirement under this article as they do to any requirement under section 84 of that Act.
(6) In this article—
“predecessor body” means a police authority, a joint police board or the Scottish Police Services Authority;
“predecessor police force” means a police force or the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.