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Local Government and Rating Act 1997

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

Change 1

What to do with it
As published

31 Crime prevention.

(1) A parish council or community council may, for the detection or prevention of crime in their area— (a) install and maintain any equipment, (b) establish and maintain any scheme, or (c) assist others to install and maintain any equipment or to establish and maintain any scheme. (2) In section 92 of the Police Act 1996 (grants by local authorities)— (a) in subsection (1)— (i) for “or London borough” there is substituted “ London borough, parish or community ”, and (ii) for “county, district, county borough or borough” there is substituted “ council’s area ”, and (b) in subsection (2), for “or district” there is substituted “ district or parish ”.

Your change, as a redline

31 Crime prevention.

(1) A parish council or community council may, for the detection or prevention of crime in their area— (a) install and maintain any equipment, (b) establish and maintain any scheme, or (c) assist others to install and maintain any equipment or to establish and maintain any scheme. (2) In section 92 of the Police Act 1996 (grants by local authorities)— (a) in subsection (1)— (i) for “or London borough” there is substituted “ London borough, parish or community ”, and (ii) for “county, district, county borough or borough” there is substituted “ council’s area ”, and (b) in subsection (2), for “or district” there is substituted “ district or parish ”.

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Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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