Commentary on Sections Schedule 11: Minor and consequential amendments
534.Paragraph 43 amends Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (legislative competence of the Welsh Assembly) to update the reference to ‘anti-social behaviour orders’ to reflect the changes in this Act. This maintains the status quo as regards the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales (see Written Minister Statement of 11 February 2014, Official Report column 44WS).
535.Paragraphs 84 and 85 amend the Police Pensions Act 1976 to enable a senior police officer appointed to the College of Policing to continue to remain a member of the police pension scheme.
536.Paragraph 92 amends Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to include the College of Policing and the Police Remuneration Review Body as bodies subject to that Act.
537.Paragraph 95 amends Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002 to ensure that certain reporting requirements applying to the IPCC are subject to the consent framework set out in new paragraph 19ZD of that Schedule (inserted by section 137). This consent framework ensures that the IPCC cannot disclose certain information, which has been provided to it pursuant to an information notice, to a third party without the consent of the relevant authority who provided the information in question.
538.Paragraph 96 amends Part 1 of Schedule 19 to the Equality Act 2010 to include the College of Policing as one of the bodies subject to the equality duty.
539.Paragraph 97 makes consequential amendments to section 7 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, arising from the provisions in section 143. The effect is to broaden the scope of what must be included in the annual Police and Crime Plan that elected local policing bodies are required to publish under section 6 of the 2011 Act. At present section 6(1)(f) of the 2011 Act requires the Police and Crime Plan to specify the crime and disorder reduction grants which the elected local policing body is to make in accordance with the powers in section 9 of that Act. The new section 7(1)(ea) and substituted section 7(1)(f) instead requires the Police and Crime Plan to specify the services commissioned and provided under the new powers in subsection (1) of section 143 and any grants made under that section.
540.Paragraph 98 repeals section 9 of the 2011 Act which enables local policing bodies to make crime and disorder reduction grants. Such power is now superseded by the commissioning power conferred by section 143(3).
541.Paragraph 101 makes a consequential amendment to the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013, in relation to consultation by Scottish Ministers on regulations concerning police pensions and other benefits, to reflect the replacement in Scotland of the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom with the Police Negotiating Board for Scotland.