SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5U.K. Consequential amendments

The Police Act 1996 (c. 16)U.K.

37(1)The Police Act 1996 shall be amended as follows.

(2)In section 5 (reductions in size of police authorities), in subsection (2)(c), for “section 21(1A) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979” there shall be substituted “ section 29(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 ”.

(3)In Schedule 2 (police authorities)—

(a)in paragraph 7, for “section 21(1A) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979” there shall be substituted “ section 29(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 ”; and

(b)in paragraph 27, for “the Justices of the Peace Act 1979” there shall be substituted “ the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 ”.