Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

15 Supply of goods and services

(1) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 1 of the 1970 Act (supply of goods and services by local authorities) apply, with the modification set out in subsection (2), to each elected local policing body as they apply to a local authority.

(2) In those subsections, references to a public body (within the meaning of that section) are to be read as references to any person.

(3) An elected local policing body may not enter into an agreement with another elected local policing body, or with the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a police authority, under section 1 of the 1970 Act in respect of a matter which could be the subject of force collaboration provision in a collaboration agreement under section 22A of the Police Act 1996.

(4) In this section “1970 Act” means the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.