The Police Federation (Amendment) Regulations 1975

Statutory Instruments

1975 No. 1739

POLICE

The Police Federation (Amendment) Regulations 1975

Made

24th October 1975

Laid before Parliament

4th November 1975

Coming into Operation

1st December 1975

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 44 of the Police Act 1964, and after consultation with the three Central Committees of the Police Federation for England and Wales sitting as a Joint Committee, I hereby make the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police Federation (Amendment) Regulations 1975 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1975.

2.  In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Police Federation Regulations 1969(1), as amended(2).

3.  For Regulation 16(4) of the principal Regulations (subscriptions etc.) there shall be substituted the following provision:—

“(4) If at the end of any year the funds held by a branch board exceed—

(a) £600 where the number of subscribing members is less than a hundred;

(b) £6 for each subscribing member, where the number of such members is a hundred or more but less than five hundred or, in the case of the metropolitan police force, a hundred or more but less than a thousand;

(c) £3,000 where the number of subscribing members is five hundred or more or, in the case of the metropolitan police force, £6,000 where the number of such members is one thousand or more,

the board shall pay the excess to the appropriate central committee and, after making such payment, may pay such sum as they think fit to the joint branch board.”

4.  For Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations (regions) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Appendix to these Regulations.

Roy Jenkins

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

Whitehall

24th October 1975

APPENDIX SCHEDULE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

“SCHEDULE 5 REGIONS

For the purposes of these Regulations there shall be the following eight regions:—

(a)

No. 1 (North-West) Region, comprising the police areas of Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside;

(b)

No. 2 (North-East) Region, comprising the police areas of Cleveland, Durham, Humberside, Northumbria, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire;

(c)

No. 3 (Midlands) Region, comprising the police areas of West Midlands, West Mercia, Warwickshire and Staffordshire;

(d)

No. 4 (Eastern) Region, comprising the police areas of Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk;

(e)

No. 5 (South-East) Region, comprising the police areas of Bedfordshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Thames Valley;

(f)

No. 6 (South-West) Region, comprising the police areas of Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire;

(g)

No. 7 (Wales) Region, comprising the police areas of North Wales, South Wales, Dyfed-Powys and Gwent;

(h)

No. 8 (London) Region, comprising the metropolitan police district and the City of London.”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Police Federation Regulations 1969.

Regulation 16 of the Regulations of 1969 limits the funds which may be retained by a branch board at the end of any year and requires the payment of any excess to the appropriate central committee. Regulation 3 of these Regulations raises these limits.

Regulation 4 of these Regulations amends the composition of regions in the Regulations of 1969 to take account of changes in police areas resulting from the Local Government Act 1972(c.70).

(1)

(1969 III, p. 5592).

(2)

The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1971/1498 (1971 III, p. 4194).