SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Minor and consequential amendments relating to SOCA

80Police Act 1996 (c. 16)

1

Section 88 (liability for wrongful acts of constables) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (5)(b) omit “or section 23 of the Police Act 1997”.

3

After subsection (5) insert—

5A

This section shall have effect where, by virtue of section 23 or 24 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, a member of the staff of the Serious Organised Crime Agency who is neither a constable nor an employee of the police authority is provided to a police force as if—

a

any unlawful conduct of his in the performance or purported performance of his functions were unlawful conduct of a constable under the direction and control of the chief officer of police of that force; and

b

subsection (4) applied to him in the case of the police authority maintaining that force.