Police Act 1964
1964 CHAPTER 48
An Act to re-enact with modifications certain enactments relating to police forces in England and Wales, to amend the Police (Scotland) Act 1956, and to make further provision with respect to the police.
[10th June 1964]
Textual Amendments
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Part IE+W Organisation of Police Forces
County, county borough and combined forcesE+W
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Part IIE+W Central Supervision, Direction and Facilities
Functions of Secretary of StateE+W
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Part IIIE+W+S Police Representative Institutions
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Remedies and complaints against policeE+W
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OffencesE+W
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64 Interpretation, repeals and transitional provisions.E+W+S
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(2)References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended, and as including references thereto as extended or applied, by any subsequent enactment.
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(1)This Act may be cited as the Police Act 1964.
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(5)The following provisions of this Act extend to Scotland, namely, Part III; . . . ; section 63 and Schedule 9, so far as they relate to enactments extending to Scotland; section 64 and Part II of Schedule 10; and this section.
(6)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
SCHEDULES
[Schedule 1AE+W POLICE AREAS]
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[Schedule 1BE+W POLICE AUTHORITIES ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 3]
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[Schedule 1CE+W POLICE AUTHORITIES: SELECTION OF INDEPENDENT MEMBERS]
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Section 18.
SCHEDULE 2E+W Form of Declaration
SCHEDULE 3E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Section 63
SCHEDULE 9E+W+S Minor and Consequential Amendments
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The Metropolitan Police Act 1886. | In section 2 for the words “Minister of Health” there shall be substituted the words “Secretary of State”. |
The Riot (Damages) Act 1886 | Throughout the Act for the words “police authority” there shall be substituted the words “compensatio n authority”. |
| In section 2(1), for the words “the police rate” there shall be substituted the words “the police fund”. |
| In section 5, in subsection (1), for the words from “moneys held by them” to “the said moneys” there shall be substituted the words “the police fund, and shall also pay out of the said fund” ; in subsection (3) for the words “riot expenses” there shall be substituted the words “any compensation, costs and expenses payable under subsection (1) of this section”; and subsection (4) shall be omitted. |
| In section 9, for the words from “means one of the districts” to “assigned to them” there shall be substituted the words and the expression “police fund” have the same meaning as in the Police Act 1964 and the expression “compensation authority”means— |
| (a) in relation to a district for which the police authority is a committee of the council of a county or borough, that council; |
| (b) in relation to the metropolitan police district, the Reciever for that district; and |
| (c) in relation to any other district, the police authority. |
The Metropolitan Police (Reciever) Act 1895. | In section 1 for the words “absent from his duties” there shall be substituted the words “unable to act whether by reason of absence or otherwise”. |
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The Local Government (Miscllaneous Provisions) Act 1953. | In section 18, after subsection (2) there shall be added thew following subsection— “(3)– In relation to a council of any county or county borough any reference in paragraph (a) or (b of subsection (1) of section 1 of this Act to the authority, and any references in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 2 of this Act to the local authority, shall be construed as including a reference to a police authority which is a committee of that council”. |
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The Local Government Act 1958. | In section 60(2), after the words “the Act of 1933” there shall be inserted the words “or of any order under Part I of the Police Act 1964”; and for the words “that Act” there shall be substituted the words “the Act of 1933”. |
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Textual Amendments
Marginal Citations
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Section 64.
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