Effect of the Act on the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 and Fire Services Act 1947
21.The relevant sections of the 1967 Act and the 1947 Act, as amended by this Act, are set out below. The amendments are shown underlined and deletions scored through.
22.In these extracts, references to the Secretary of State and to either House of Parliament are shown in square brackets. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) and these references should therefore be read as if they were references to the Scottish Ministers. Similarly, references to either House of Parliament have effect, so far as they relate to the exercise of a function by a member of the Scottish Executive within devolved competence, as if the references were references to the Scottish Parliament by virtue of section 118(2) of the Scotland Act.