25 Northumbria Police Authority.E+W
(1)On the appointed day there shall be established for the police area constituted by the M1Northumbria Police (Amalgamation) Order 1973 (which consists of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and the county of Northumberland) a body corporate which as from the abolition date shall be known as the Northumbria Police Authority and before that date as the Northumbria Interim Police Authority.
(2)The authority shall consist of—
(a)members of the constituent councils appointed by them to be members of the authority;
(b)magistrates for the county of Tyne and Wear appointed by a joint committee of those magistrates (“the joint magistrates’ committee”); and
(c)magistrates for the county of Northumberland appointed by the magistrates’ courts committee for that county.
(3)The constituent councils in relation to that authority shall be the councils of the metropolitan districts comprised in the county of Tyne and Wear and the Northumberland County Council.
(4)The joint magistrates’ committed for the county of Tyne and Wear shall consist of such number of representatives from each of the magistrates’ courts committees for the districts in that county as those committees may agree or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.
(5)Appointments by the joint magistrates’ committee and the magistrates’ courts committee under subsection (2)(b) and (c) above shall be made in accordance with schemes made by those committees respectively and approved by the Secretary of State; and, subject to sections 30 and 32 below, the persons to be appointed by those committees shall be appointed at such times, in such manner and for such terms as may be prescribed by rules made by the Secretary of State.
(6)The Order mentioned in subsection (1) above shall cease to have effect on the abolition date and the Authority established by it shall then cease to exist and all its property, rights and liabilities (including rights and liabilities in respect of contracts of employment) shall on that date vest in the Authority established by this section.
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