The Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on the accounts sent to him under paragraph 17(b) in respect of each financial year and shall lay a copy of the accounts and his report on them before each House of Parliament.

Special constables

Terms of employment

Civilian employees

Terms of employment

Inspection

Professional staff off duty

Territorial application

Office of Rail Regulation: general duties

Territorial application

Convention on International Carriage by Rail

Railway security services

Road traffic: testing for drink and drugs

Highways: snow and ice

Shipping legislation: application to structures, craft, &c.

Schedules 1 and 4: sequestration, &c. in Scotland

Reports by Chief Constable

Prescribed limit

Office of Rail Regulation: general duties

Interpretation: enactment

Inquiry: supplemental

Professional staff on duty

Office of Rail Regulation: general duties

Convention on International Carriage by Rail

Schedules 1 and 4: sequestration, &c. in Scotland

Consequential repeal

Regulations

Traffic regulation on long distance routes

Schedules 1 and 4: sequestration, &c. in Scotland

Special constables

Police regulations: special constables

Trade union membership

Reports by Chief Constable

Inquiry: supplemental

Seat belts: delivery drivers

15A

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for the body established by section 15 to be known by a different name.

(2) Regulations under this section may amend this Act or any other enactment, whenever passed or made.

(3) Regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument.

(4) A statutory instrument which contains regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Establishment of Police Force

Highways: snow and ice

31A

(1) Where a constable of the Police Force exercises in Scotland any power or privilege of a constable, Parts 1 and 2 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (in this section “the 2016 Act”) apply in relation to the exercise as though the power or privilege were exercised by a constable of the Police Service of Scotland.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—

(a) in section 64 of the 2016 Act (police custody), references to a person arrested by a constable are to be read as including a person arrested by a constable of the Police Force,

(b) section 69 of the 2016 Act (publication of information by police) does not apply.

31B

(1) The following apply, in Scotland, in relation to a constable of the Police Force as they apply in relation to a constable of the Police Service of Scotland—

(a) Part 4 of the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 (in this section, “the 2019 Act”),

(b) any regulations made or guidance issued under that Part.

(2) Subsections (3) to (6) make further provision in relation to the application of Part 4 of the 2019 Act to constables of the Police Force.

(3) References in Part 4 of the 2019 Act (however expressed) to constables of a particular rank are to be read, in relation to action taken or proposed to be taken by constable of the Police Force, as references to a constable of the Police Force of the rank referred to.

(4) References in the following sections of the 2019 Act to the chief constable are to be read as including reference to the chief constable of the Police Force—

(a) section 29(2)(a),

(b) section 31(3)(a) and (5)(a),

(5) The reference in section 33(1) of the 2019 Act to an enactment includes reference to an enactment which confers a power of the type described in that section on constables of the Police Force (whether or not the enactment also confers that power on constables of the Police Service of Scotland).

(6) The reference in section 75(2) of the 2019 Act to a constable is to be read as including reference to a constable of the Police Force.

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