The Scottish Police Services Authority (Police Support Services) (Modification) Order 2007

Made: 13th December 2007

Coming into force: 1st April 2008

In accordance with section 103(4) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Scottish Police Services Authority (Police Support Services) (Modification) Order 2007 and comes into force on 1st April 2008.

Modification of police support services

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• (1) Section 3 of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 (duty to provide the police support services) is modified as follows.

• (2) In subsection (2)–

• (a) paragraph (b)(ii) is repealed;

• (b) in paragraph (e), after “information” insert “and communications”;

• (c) the word “and” following paragraph (e) is repealed; and

• (d) after paragraph (f) insert–

• ; and the development, provision, procurement, maintenance, management, support and oversight, as appropriate, of information and communications technology systems and equipment for– police forces; and such other persons or organisations as the Authority thinks fit.

• (3) For subsection (7) substitute–

(7) In this section, “information and communications technology systems” means systems which utilise a computer, telecommunications, wireless telegraphy, radio or other technology by means of which information or other matter may be recorded or communicated without being reduced to documentary form.

Signed

KENNY MACASKILL — A member of the Scottish Executive — 13th December 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order modifies section 3 of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 10) which defines the police support services which the Scottish Police Services Authority (“the Authority”) is under a duty to provide.

The Order provides that from 1st April 2008 the Authority will have a duty to provide a new police support service in respect of the development, provision, procurement, maintenance, management, support and oversight, as appropriate, of information and communications technology systems and equipment for police forces and such other persons or organisations as the Authority thinks fit. The Order also makes minor amendments to section 3 which are consequential on the provision of this new duty and substitutes a definition of “information and communications technology systems” for the existing definition of “information technology systems”.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 asp 10.