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This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1984.
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(1) So much of section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as relates to search for stolen articles shall come into force on 1st January 1985 for the purpose of conferring powers on constables in localities to which this paragraph applies.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to any locality in which there was in force on 31st December 1984 an enactment conferring power on a constable to search for stolen or unlawfully obtained goods, other than an enactment contained in a public general Act or an enactment relating to statutory undertakers.
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The provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 specified in the Schedules to this Order shall come into force on the dates mentioned in the headings to those Schedules.
Leon Brittan
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
20th December 1984
APPENDIX A
So much of Schedule 6 as amends the following enactments:—
Section 7(1) and section 29(2) of the Police Act 1964 (c.48).
Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c.77).

APPENDIX B

Chapter Short title Extent of repeal
1967 c.77. Police (Scotland) Act 1967. Section 5(3).
SCHEDULE 1


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Provisions of the Act Subject matter of provisions
Section 7(2)(b). Power of constables employed by statutory undertakers to search for stolen or unlawfully obtained goods.
Section 7(3). Meaning of “statutory undertakers”.
Section 23. Meaning of “premises”, etc.
Section 59. Legal aid for persons at police stations.
Section 66. Codes of practice.
Section 67. Codes of practice—supplementary.
Section 106. Arrangements for obtaining the views of the community on policing.
Section 109(c). Authorisation of Police Federations to make rules relating to their constitution and proceedings.
Section 112. Metropolitan police officers.
Section 113(3) to (13). Application of Act to Armed Forces.
Section 115. Expenses.
Section 118. General interpretation.
SCHEDULE 2


Provisions of the Act Subject matter of provisions
Section 108. Deputy chief constables.
Section 110. Functions of special constables in Scotland.
Section 111. Regulations for police forces and police cadets—Scotland.
Section 119 to the extent necessary to bring into operation the provisions of Schedules 6 and 7 respectively specified in Appendix A and Appendix B hereto. Amendments and repeals
So much of Schedule 6 as is specified in Appendix A hereto. Minor and consequential amendments.
So much of Schedule 7 as is specified in Appendix B hereto. Miscellaneous repeals.