The South Wales Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No.869

POLICE

The South Wales Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1993

Made

24th March 1993

Whereas the combined police authority constituted by the South Wales Police Amalgamation Scheme 1973 (set out in the Appendix to the South Wales Police (Amalgamation) Order 1973(1)) has, under sections 21 and 22 of the Police Act 1964(2), submitted to me the Scheme set out in the Appendix to this Order for the amendment of the said Scheme of 1973:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power conferred on me by the said sections, I, by this Order, approve the Scheme set out in the Appendix to this Order.

This Order may be cited as the South Wales Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1993.

Kenneth Clarke

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

24th March 1993

APPENDIX THE SOUTH WALES POLICE AMALGAMATION (AMENDMENT) SCHEME 1993

1.  This Scheme may be cited as the South Wales Police Amalgamation (Amendment) Scheme 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

2.  For paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 2 to the South Wales Police Amalgamation Scheme 1973 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above the population of an area shall be that population as estimated by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages as at 30th June in the financial year in question.”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order contains the Secretary of State’s approval to a Scheme, submitted to him under the Police Act 1964, further amending the South Wales Police Amalgamation Scheme 1973 with effect from 1st April 1993.

It provides that the respective proportions of the expenses of the combined police authority which the constituent councils are to contribute are to be assessed by reference to populations as estimated by the Registrar General rather than populations calculated under provisions now repealed.

(1)

S.I. 1973/2112, amended by S.I. 1990/738.

(2)

1964 c. 48; sections 21 and 22 were amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 30.