Part VI Police and Probation Services

The Metropolitan Police Authority and its police force

312 Metropolitan Police Authority to be police authority instead of Secretary of State.

(1)

Section 101 of the M1Police Act 1996 (interpretation) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In the definition of “police authority”, in paragraph (b), for “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted “ Metropolitan Police Authority ”.

(3)

In the definition of “police fund”—

(a)

in paragraph (a), after “force maintained under section 2” there shall be inserted “ or the metropolitan police force ”, and

(b)

paragraph (b) shall cease to have effect.