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| The Metropolitan Police Authority Regulations 2008 |
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Made
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6th March 2008
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Laid before Parliament
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7th March 2008
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Coming into force
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1st April 2008
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The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 7 of Schedule 2A to the Police Act 1996(1), makes the following Regulations. |
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In accordance with paragraph 6 of that Schedule the Secretary of State has consulted with— |
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the Metropolitan Police Authority, |
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the Association of Police Authorities, |
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the Greater London Authority, |
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persons whom he considers to represent the interests of London Boroughs, |
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such other persons as he thought fit. |
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| PART 1 |
| General Provisions |
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These Regulations may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Authority Regulations 2008 and subject to paragraph (2) shall come into force on 1st April 2008. |
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These Regulations shall apply only in respect of appointments of members of the Metropolitan Police Authority that take effect on or after 1st October 2008(2). |
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“the Mayor” means the Mayor of London, |
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“the 1994 Regulations” means the Police Authorities (Selection Panel) Regulations 1994(3), |
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“the 1996 Act” means the Police Act 1996, |
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A person appointed under current paragraph 2 (appointment of Metropolitan Police Authority members by the Mayor) of Schedule 2A to the 1996 Act whose term of office under that Schedule expires on or after 1st October 2008 shall be treated as a person appointed under regulation 6 until the expiry of that term. |
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A person appointed under current paragraph 3 (appointment of independent members of the Metropolitan Police Authority) of Schedule 2A to the 1996 Act whose term of office under that Schedule expires on or after 1st October 2008 shall be treated as a person appointed under regulation 7 until the expiry of that term. |
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A term of office of a person appointed under current paragraph 3 of Schedule 2A to the 1996 Act shall be treated as a term of office of a person appointed under regulation 7 for the purposes of regulation 18(2). |
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A person appointed under current paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 3(4) (Police authorities: selection of independent members) to the 1996 Act shall be treated as persons appointed under regulation 30(b) until the expiry of their term of office under that Schedule. |
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The record maintained by a selection panel under regulation 7 (record maintained by the panel) of the 1994 Regulations of persons who have applied to be considered for appointment as a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority shall be treated as a record maintained under regulation 43 of these Regulations. |
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| PART 2 |
| Members of the Metropolitan Police Authority |
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twelve of those members shall be members of the London Assembly appointed under regulation 6, and |
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eleven shall be persons appointed under regulation 7. |
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The members referred to in regulation 5(a) shall be appointed by the Mayor. |
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The Mayor shall exercise his power to appoint members of the Metropolitan Police Authority under paragraph (1) so as to ensure that, so far as practicable, in the case of the members for whose appointment he is responsible, the proportion who are members of any given party is the same as the proportion of the members of the London Assembly who are members of that party. |
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One of the members appointed by the Mayor under paragraph (1) may be the Mayor himself. |
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Ten of the members referred to in regulation 5(b) shall be appointed— |
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by the existing members of the Metropolitan Police Authority, |
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from among persons on a short-list prepared by a selection panel in accordance with Part 3 of these Regulations. |
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Where an existing member of the Metropolitan Police Authority is on the short-list referred to in paragraph (1)(b) that person shall not be entitled to play any role in the appointment of persons from that short-list and shall not be considered to be an existing member of the Metropolitan Police Authority for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a). |
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One of the members referred to in regulation 5(b) shall be appointed by the Secretary of State. |
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The Metropolitan Police Authority shall arrange for a notice stating— |
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the name of each of its members appointed under regulations 6 and 7, |
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such other information relating to each of such members as the Metropolitan Police Authority considers appropriate, |
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to be published in such manner as appears to it to be appropriate. |
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The Metropolitan Police Authority shall send to the Secretary of State a copy of any notice which it has arranged to be published under paragraph (1). |
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If the Mayor is a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, he is to be chairman. |
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If the Mayor is not a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority he shall before each annual meeting appoint a chairman from among its members. |
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On a casual vacancy occurring in the office of chairman, an appointment to fill the vacancy shall be made by the Mayor — |
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before the next meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority (other than an extraordinary meeting), or |
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if that meeting is held within fourteen days after the date on which the vacancy occurs and is not an annual meeting, not later than the next following meeting. |
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Before an annual meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority the Mayor may appoint one or more vice-chairmen from among the members of the Metropolitan Police Authority. |
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Where a vice-chairman ceases to hold office at any time between annual meetings, the Mayor may make an appointment to fill the vacancy at any meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority held more than fourteen days after the occurrence of the vacancy. |
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Subject to any standing orders made by the Metropolitan Police Authority, anything authorised or required to be done by, to or before its chairman may be done by, to or before any vice-chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority. |
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