Race Relations Act 1976 (Repealed)

F176B Other police bodies etc.E+W+S

(1)[F2Section 76A applies in relation to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”) and the National Crime Squad (“the NCS”) as it applies in relation to a police force but as if any reference—

(a)to the chief officer of police were to the Director General of NCIS or of the NCS, as the case may be;

(b)to the police authority were to the Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the Service Authority for the National Crime Squad, as the case may be;

(c)to the police fund were to the service fund established under section 16 of the M1Police Act 1997 (NCIS service fund) or section 61 of that Act (the NCS service fund), as the case may be.]

(2)Section 76A [F3also] applies in relation to any other body of constables or cadets as it applies in relation to a police force, but as if any reference—

(a)to the chief officer of police were to the officer or other person who has the direction and control of the body in question;

(b)to the police authority were to the authority by whom the members of the body are paid;

(c)to the police fund were to money provided by that authority.

[F4(2A)Constables serving with the Serious Organised Crime Agency do not constitute a body of constables for the purposes of subsection (2).]

(3)In relation to a member of a police force or a special constable who is not under the direction and control of the chief officer of police for that police force or, as the case may be, for the police area to which he is appointed, references in section 76A to the chief officer of police are references to the chief officer under whose direction and control he is.

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 76A, 76B and cross-heading inserted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 34, s. 4 (with s. 10(5)); S.I. 2001/566, art. 2(1)

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