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5E+W+SAny reference to a police district contained in—
(a)an application for a pedlar’s certificate under the M1Pedlars Act 1871 made before the commencement of paragraphs 2 to 6 of Schedule 7 to this Act, or
(b)a pedlar’s certificate granted under that Act before that commencement,
shall on and after that commencement be read as if it were a reference to the equivalent police area.
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M134 & 35 Vict. c. 96.
6E+WNotwithstanding the repeal by this Act of subsection (4) of section 58 of the M2Police Act 1964 (provision made by regulations for chief constables affected by amalgamations or reorganisations not to be less favourable than that under the M3Police Pensions Act 1976), that subsection shall continue to have effect in relation to any person who was the chief constable of a police force on 1st July 1964 and became a member of another police force by virtue of that section.
7E+W+SNotwithstanding the repeal by this Act of subsection (4) of section 64 of that Act (power to make consequential amendments to local Acts by order), any local enactment which immediately before the coming into force of that repeal had effect with modifications by virtue of an order made under that subsection shall continue to have effect with those modifications.
8E+WWithout prejudice to the generality of paragraph 1(4) above, any transitional provision which—
(a)is contained in an order made under section 94(1) of the M4Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994, and
(b)relates to the coming into force of a provision of that Act reproduced in this Act,
shall, in so far as it remains capable of having effect, continue to operate in relation to the corresponding provision of this Act.
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9E+WFor the period beginning with the commencement of Schedule 1 to this Act and ending on 31st March 1997, that Schedule shall have effect as if—
(a)for the entry in the second column opposite the name of the Bedfordshire police area there were substituted—
“The county of Bedfordshire”, |
(b)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Derbyshire police area there were substituted—
“The county of Derbyshire”, |
(c)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Dorset police area there were substituted—
“The county of Dorset”, |
(d)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Durham police area there were substituted—
“The county of Durham”, |
(e)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Hampshire police area there were substituted—
“The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight”, |
(f)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Leicestershire police area there were substituted—
“The county of Leicestershire”, |
(g)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Staffordshire police area there were substituted—
“The county of Staffordshire”, |
(h)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Sussex police area there were substituted—
“The counties of East Sussex and West Sussex”, |
(i)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Thames Valley police area there were substituted—
“The counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire”, |
(j)for the entry in that column opposite the name of the Wiltshire police area there were substituted—
“The county of Wiltshire”. |
10E+WNotwithstanding the repeal by this Act of sections 21A and 21C of the M5Police Act 1964 (power to amend Welsh police areas in relation to the Welsh local government reorganisation), any order made under section 21A of that Act shall continue to have effect.
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