SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 27Further amendments relating to metropolitan police etc

Supervision of investigations by Police Complaints Authority

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(1)

Section 72 of the M1Police Act 1996 (supervision of investigations by Police Complaints Authority) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (3) (powers with respect to appointments under section 68(3) etc) in paragraph (a), for “section 68(3)” there shall be substituted “section 68(2B) or (3)”.

(3)

After subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

“(3A)

In the application of subsection (3) in relation to appointment under section 68(2B)—

(a)

any reference to the appropriate authority shall be taken as a reference to the Secretary of State; and

(b)

the reference in paragraph (b)(i) to another member of a police force shall be taken as a reference to another person.”