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These Regulations may be cited as the Police Federation (Amendment) Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1971.
2 
In these Regulations a reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Police Federation Regulations 1969.
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(1) Regulation 9(4) of the principal Regulations (central conferences) is hereby revoked.
(2) In paragraph (5) of the said Regulation 9 the words “or, as the case may be, of the metropolitan police force or the City of London police force” shall be omitted.
4 
In Regulation 12(2) of the principal Regulations (central committees)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after the words “two members shall be elected” there shall be inserted the words “in respect of No. 8 (London) Region,”, and
(b) in sub-paragraph (b), after the words “in respect of each” there shall be inserted the word “other”.
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For Regulation 16(4) of the principal Regulations (subscriptions etc.) there shall be substituted the following provision:—“
(4) If at the end of any year the funds held by a branch board exceed—
(a) £400, where the number of subscribing members is less than a hundred;
(b) £4 for each subscribing member, where the number of such members is a hundred or more but less than five hundred or, in the case of the metropolitan police force, a hundred or more but less than a thousand;
(c) £2,000 where the number of subscribing members is five hundred or more or, in the case of the metropolitan police force, £4,000 where the number of such members is one thousand or more.the board shall pay the excess to the appropriate central committee and, after making such payment, may pay such sum as they think fit to the joint branch board.”.
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(1) In paragraph (1) of Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations (use of Federation funds)—
(a) for the words “paragraphs (3) and (4)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (3), (4) and (5)”, and
(b) after the words “paragraph (4)(h)” there shall be added the words “or (5)”.
(2) At the end of the said Regulation 19 there shall be added the following paragraph:—“
(5) Federation funds held by the joint central committee or, with the consent thereof, funds held by a central committee, may be used to defray legal charges incurred by such a person as is mentioned in paragraph (4)(h) in connection with criminal proceedings brought against him for common assault, or assault occasioning actual bodily harm, committed as mentioned in paragraph (4)(h).”.
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For paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (women delegates to central conferences) there shall be substituted the following provision:—“
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The number of delegates to be elected, under Regulation 9(3), by women members of inspectors', sergeants' or constables' branch boards in a region to the appropriate central conference—
(a) in the case of No. 8 (London) Region, shall be four;
(b) in the case of each other region, shall be determined by reference to the aggregate authorised establishment for the police forces in the region, as hereafter in this Part of this Schedule provided.”.
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(1) In Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations (regions) for the words “seven regions” there shall be substituted the words “eight regions”.
(2) At the end of the said Schedule 5 there shall be added the following provision:—“
(h) No. 8 (London) Region, comprising the metropolitan police district and the City of London.”.
R. Maudling
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office, Whitehall
8th September 1971