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These Regulations may be cited as the Police Authorities (Standing Orders) Regulations 1997, and shall come into force on 17th November 1997.
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(1) No later than the first ordinary meeting of the authority falling after the day on which these Regulations come into force, a police authority shall, in respect of the recording of votes, and signing of minutes, of the authority—
(a) make standing orders incorporating the provisions set out in Schedule 2 to the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) Regulations 1993, or provisions to like effect, and
(b) modify any existing standing orders in so far as necessary to conform with those provisions.
(2) In this regulation ‘police authority’ means a police authority constituted under section 3 of the Police Act 1996.
Alun Michael
Minister of State
Home Office
5th October 1997