3 Objectives.U.K.
(1)The NCIS Service Authority shall secure that NCIS is efficient and effective.
(2)The NCIS Service Authority shall, before the beginning of each financial year, determine objectives for that year for NCIS.
(3)Objectives determined under this section may relate to matters to which objectives determined under section 26 also relate, or to other matters, but in any event shall be so framed as to be consistent with the objectives determined under that section.
(4)Before determining objectives under this section, the NCIS Service Authority shall consult—
(a)the Director General of NCIS,
(b)persons whom it considers to represent the interests of the authorities who between them maintain the police forces in Great Britain and the Royal Ulster Constabulary,
(c)the NCS Service Authority, and
(d)the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
Commencement Information
I1S. 3 wholly in force at 1.4.1998; s. 3 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 135; s. 3(2)-(4) in force at 1.9.1997 by S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2 (with art. 2(3)); s. 3 otherwise in force at 1.4.1998 by S.I. 1998/354 art. 2