C6Part 1Police reform
CHAPTER 3Functions of elected local policing bodies etc
Other provisions about functions
I2I317Duties when carrying out functions
C11
In carrying out functions, an elected local policing body must have regard to the views of people in the body's area about policing in that area.
C1C3C72
In carrying out functions in a particular financial year, an elected local policing body must have regard to any report or recommendations made by the relevant police and crime panel on the annual report for the previous financial year (see section 28(4)).
C4C73
Subsection (2) does not affect any exercise of the functions of the elected local policing body in any part of a particular financial year that falls—
a
before the body has received a report or recommendations on the annual report for the previous financial year, or
b
during the period after receipt of a report or recommendations when the body is considering the report or recommendations.
I1C2C5C74
In carrying out functions, an elected local policing body must have regard to any financial code of practice issued by the Secretary of State.
I1C25
The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of any financial code of practice.
I1C26
The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a copy of—
a
any financial code of practice, and
b
any revision of a financial code of practice.
I1C27
In this section “financial code of practice” means a code of practice relating to the proper administration by elected local policing bodies of their financial affairs.
8
This section is in addition to the duty under section 8 to have regard to the police and crime plan.
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (10.5.2021) by The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/112), arts. 1(4), 35(1) (with art. 35(3), Sch. 6)