[F121C Orders altering police areas: supplementary provisions.E+W
(1)The power to make orders under section 21 or 21A of this Act includes power to make such supplementary and transitional provision as the Secretary of State thinks necessary or expedient, including—
(a)provision as to the membership of a police authority;
(b)provision for the transfer of property, rights and liabilities;
(c)provision for the transfer of members of police forces and other persons;
(d)provision as to pending legal proceedings.
(2)Without prejudice to subsection (1) of this section, the power to make orders under section 21 or 21A of this Act includes power—
(a)to amend Schedule 1A to this Act and section 76 of the M1London Government Act 1963 (extent of metropolitan police district), and
(b)to amend any other enactment, and any instrument made under any enactment, where the amendment is consequential on any provision of the order.
(3)No order shall be made under section 21 of this Act by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
(4)An order to which subsection (3) of this section applies, and which would apart from this subsection be treated for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, shall proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.
(5)A statutory instrument containing an order under section 21 or 21A of this Act, other than an order to which subsection (3) of this section applies, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 21, 21A-21C substituted for s. 21 (1.10.1994 in so far as substitutes s. 21A and 21C and 1.4.1995 otherwise) by 1994 c. 29, s. 14; S.I. 1994/2025, art. 6, S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch.
Marginal Citations