Police Act 1964
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Schedule 1A POLICE AREAS
1 In relation to a combined police authority constituted as a committee of the council of a county . . . the provisions of this Act shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this Schedule. 2 Subsections (6) and (7) of section 2 shall apply to the combined police authority as if it were a committee appointed under that section and section 3(3) shall not apply. 3 Notwithstanding anything in section 21(3) and Schedule 8, there shall be no combined police fund but the police fund for the combined area shall be the local fund of the county . . . and the amalgamation scheme shall make provision for the payment into that fund, out of the local funds of the other areas comprised in the combined area, of contributions assessed in accordance with the provisions of the scheme. 4 Sections 8(2) and 9(3) shall not apply, and subsections (3) and (4) of section 8 and subsections (1), (2) and (4) of section 9 shall apply as if the police area consisted only of the county . . . . 5 The council of the county . . . shall have the same power under section 10(1) as if the combined police force were maintained only for the county . . . . 6 Any provision made under section 21(3)(e) may be for transfer to the council of the county . . . instead of to the combined police authority, and for the use of any transferred property by that council instead of, or as well as, that authority. 7 In relation to an amalgamation scheme to be approved or made by virtue of section 23 of this Act— (a) the reference in subsection (4) of section 3 of this Act to a committee of one of the constituent councils shall include a reference to a committee of the council for any relevant area, that is to say, any area which under the order in question is (within the meaning of section 23 of this Act) a prospective police area and to which the scheme is to apply and (b) the request required by that subsection shall include the request of every council which is the council for a county the whole or any part of which is included in a relevant area. England (except London) Name of police area | Extent Avon and Somerset | The counties of Avon and Somerset Bedfordshire | The county of Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire | The county of Cambridgeshire Cheshire | The county of Cheshire Cleveland | The county of Cleveland Cumbria | The county of Cumbria Derbyshire | The county of Derbyshire Devon and Cornwall | The counties of Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Dorset | The county of Dorset Durham | The county of Durham Essex | The county of Essex Gloucestershire | The county of Gloucestershire Greater Manchester | The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan Hampshire | The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Hertfordshire | The county of Hertfordshire Humberside | The county of Humberside Kent | The county of Kent Lancashire | The county of Lancashire Leicestershire | The county of Leicestershire Lincolnshire | The county of Lincolnshire Merseyside | The metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral Norfolk | The county of Norfolk Northamptonshire | The county of Northamptonshire Northumbria | The county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland North Yorkshire | The county of North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire | The county of Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire | The metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Staffordshire | The county of Staffordshire Suffolk | The county of Suffolk Surrey | The county of Surrey Sussex | The counties of East Sussex and West Sussex Thames Valley | The counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Warwickshire | The county of Warwickshire West Mercia | The counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire West Midlands | The metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton West Yorkshire | The metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield Wiltshire | The county of Wiltshire Wales Name of police area | Extent Dyfed Powys | The counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powy’s Gwent | The county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen North Wales | The counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire and county boroughs Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham South Wales | The counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Schedule 1A POLICE AREAS
1 In relation to a combined police authority constituted as a committee of the council of a county . . . the provisions of this Act shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this Schedule. 2 Subsections (6) and (7) of section 2 shall apply to the combined police authority as if it were a committee appointed under that section and section 3(3) shall not apply. 3 Notwithstanding anything in section 21(3) and Schedule 8, there shall be no combined police fund but the police fund for the combined area shall be the local fund of the county . . . and the amalgamation scheme shall make provision for the payment into that fund, out of the local funds of the other areas comprised in the combined area, of contributions assessed in accordance with the provisions of the scheme. 4 Sections 8(2) and 9(3) shall not apply, and subsections (3) and (4) of section 8 and subsections (1), (2) and (4) of section 9 shall apply as if the police area consisted only of the county . . . . 5 The council of the county . . . shall have the same power under section 10(1) as if the combined police force were maintained only for the county . . . . 6 Any provision made under section 21(3)(e) may be for transfer to the council of the county . . . instead of to the combined police authority, and for the use of any transferred property by that council instead of, or as well as, that authority. 7 In relation to an amalgamation scheme to be approved or made by virtue of section 23 of this Act— (a) the reference in subsection (4) of section 3 of this Act to a committee of one of the constituent councils shall include a reference to a committee of the council for any relevant area, that is to say, any area which under the order in question is (within the meaning of section 23 of this Act) a prospective police area and to which the scheme is to apply and (b) the request required by that subsection shall include the request of every council which is the council for a county the whole or any part of which is included in a relevant area. England (except London) Name of police area | Extent Avon and Somerset | The counties of Avon and Somerset Bedfordshire | The county of Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire | The county of Cambridgeshire Cheshire | The county of Cheshire Cleveland | The county of Cleveland Cumbria | The county of Cumbria Derbyshire | The county of Derbyshire Devon and Cornwall | The counties of Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Dorset | The county of Dorset Durham | The county of Durham Essex | The county of Essex Gloucestershire | The county of Gloucestershire Greater Manchester | The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan Hampshire | The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Hertfordshire | The county of Hertfordshire Humberside | The county of Humberside Kent | The county of Kent Lancashire | The county of Lancashire Leicestershire | The county of Leicestershire Lincolnshire | The county of Lincolnshire Merseyside | The metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral Norfolk | The county of Norfolk Northamptonshire | The county of Northamptonshire Northumbria | The county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland North Yorkshire | The county of North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire | The county of Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire | The metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Staffordshire | The county of Staffordshire Suffolk | The county of Suffolk Surrey | The county of Surrey Sussex | The counties of East Sussex and West Sussex Thames Valley | The counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Warwickshire | The county of Warwickshire West Mercia | The counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire West Midlands | The metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton West Yorkshire | The metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield Wiltshire | The county of Wiltshire Wales Name of police area | Extent Dyfed Powys | The counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powy’s Gwent | The county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen North Wales | The counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire and county boroughs Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham South Wales | The counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan
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