Part 3: Police Workforce and Representative Institutions Chapter 2: Representative Institutions Schedule 14: Removal of references to ACPO
Paragraph 1 amends section 101(1) of the 1996 Act to replace the definition of ACPO with a definition of the NPCC. The NPCC was formed on 1 April 2015 to replace ACPO as the body which provides national police coordination and leadership.
	Paragraphs 2 and 3 make consequential repeals, including of section 96 of the 2002 Act, which provides for the President of ACPO to hold the rank of chief constable.
	Paragraphs 4 to 7 replace various statutory references to ACPO with references to the NPCC. As amended, a number of these provisions require the Secretary of State (in practice the Home Secretary) to consult with the NPCC:
	before issuing a code of practice under PACE;
	before issuing a code of practice for police interviews of witnesses identified by the accused under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996;
	before making a direction regarding the permitted electronic forms of communication used for sending notice of:
	firearms transactions under the 1968 Act
	the export of firearms under the 1988 Act
	the transfer of firearms held on certificate under the 1997 Act;
	before making regulations and arrangements pertaining to various policing matters including the design and performance of police equipment and before requiring a police force to use certain central facilities under the 1996 Act;
	before making an order, regulations, and issuing a code of practice or guidance on various policing issues under the 2002 Act;
	before issuing guidance to police constables on domestic violence under the Crime and Security Act 2010;
	in the course of preparing a code of practice for surveillance camera systems and before making an order specifying or describing a person as a relevant authority which, when exercising its functions, must have regard to the surveillance camera code of practice under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
	Paragraph 7(f) amends section 70(2)(j) of the Courts Act 2003 to require that one person representing the NPCC be appointed to the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee.