The Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 6 and Commencement No. 5 (Amendment)) Order 2010

Made: 2nd August 2010

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 116(1) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009[^f00001].

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 6 and Commencement No. 5 (Amendment)) Order 2010.

Provision coming into force on 6th November 2010

2

The day appointed for the coming into force of section 109 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (application of aspects of UK law to SOCA employees working abroad) is 6th November 2010.

Amendment of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2010

3

• (1) Article 4 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2010[^f00002] (provision coming into force on 1st September 2010) is amended as follows.

• (2) For “section 2 of the Act (Police Senior Appointments Panel)” substitute “section 2(2) of the Act (removal of chief inspector’s functions relating to approval of appointments, etc)”.

Signed

Nick Herbert — Minister of State — 2nd August 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This is the sixth Commencement Order made under the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (“the Act”), and it also amends the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2010 (“the previous Order”).

Article 2 brings section 109 of the Act (application of aspects of UK law to SOCA employees working abroad) into force on 6th November 2010.

Article 3 amends article 4 of the previous Order by replacing the reference there to section 2 of the Act with a reference to section 2(2). The effect is that only section 2(2), and not the remainder of section 2, comes into force on 1st September 2010.

Section 2(2) of the Act amends the Police Act 1996 by omitting section 54(3A) of that Act, which allowed the Secretary of State to delegate to the chief inspector of constabulary certain functions in relation to the approval of appointments of senior police officers and the giving of consent for a deputy chief constable to exercise or perform the powers or duties of a chief constable. The remainder of section 2 of the Act (which will not now come into force on 1st September 2010) provides for the constitution and functions of a Police Senior Appointments Panel.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2009 c. 26.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2010/999 (C. 68).