SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 15Police reform: transitional provision
Part 4Other transitional provision
Power to make transitional provision etc
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1
The Secretary of State may, by order, make such transitional and transitory provision, and savings, as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with Part 1 of this Act (including provision that supplements or varies the provision made by this Schedule).
2
An order under this paragraph may, in particular—
a
amend, or otherwise modify, any enactment;
b
make any provision that may be made by a transfer scheme under Part 3 of this Schedule (whether the provision in the order relates to that Part or Part 2 of this Schedule);
c
provide for the new policing body for a police area to make any payment which—
i
before a day specified in the order could have been made out of the police fund of the existing police authority for that area, but
ii
is not a liability which is transferred to the new policing body by virtue of Part 2 of this Schedule;
d
provide for a new chief officer or a local authority to which property, rights or liabilities of a new policing body are, or are to be, transferred by virtue of a transfer scheme under Part 3 of this Schedule to make any payment which—
i
before a day specified in the order could have been made out of the police fund of that new policing body, but
ii
is not a liability which could be transferred by virtue of such a transfer scheme;
e
make provision in relation to the accounts and audit of—
i
existing police authorities, and
ii
new policing bodies.
3
Provision of the kind referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(e) may, in particular—
a
amend, or otherwise modify, any enactment relating to the accounts and audit of public bodies in its application to—
i
an existing police authority and the financial year in which that authority is abolished, or
ii
a new policing body and the financial year in which that body is established;
b
provide for the Secretary of State to give directions as to action to be taken in relation to the accounts and audit of—
i
an existing police authority in relation to the financial year in which that authority is abolished, or
ii
a new policing body in relation to the financial year in which that body is established;
c
provide for a person who, in acting in accordance with such a direction, fails to comply with a code of practice or other document relating to proper accounting practice to be taken not to have so failed to comply.