The Hampshire Police (Amalgamation) Order 1974
Whereas, by virtue of the Hampshire Police Amalgamation Scheme 1967 (set out in the Hampshire Police (Amalgamation) Order 1967(a)), the areas of the existing counties of Hampshire and of the Isle of Wight and of the cities of Portsmouth and of Southampton have become a combined police area, known as the Hampshire police area: And whereas the counties of Hampshire and of the Isle of Wight established by the Local Government Act 1972 (b) together comprise part of the said combined police area: ...