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(a) in Part 4 (police powers etc) - 


(i) section 38 (police powers for police authority employees);

(ii) in Schedule 4 (powers exercisable by police civilians) - 


(a) paragraph 1, except sub-paragraph 1(2)(a);

(b) paragraph 2 (1),(2), (5), except sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), and (6);

(c) paragraph 3(1); and

(d) paragraphs 5 to 8 and 10 to 36;



(iii) sections 40 and 41 (community safety accreditation schemes) and Schedule 5 (powers exercisable by accredited persons);

(iv) section 44 (powers of traffic wardens);

(v) section 46 (offences against designated and accredited persons);

(vi) section 50 (power to require name and address from persons acting in anti-social manner);

(vii) sections 61, 62, 64, 65, except new section 1D(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998[2], and 66 except new section 1E(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (anti-social behaviour); and

(viii) sections 67 to 69 and 72 to 74 (sex offender orders);



(b) in Part 7 (supplemental) - 



(i) section 107 (consequential amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedules 7 and 8 in sub-paragraphs (ii) and (iii) below;

(ii) paragraphs 4, 8 and 9 of Schedule 7 (minor and consequential amendments); and

(iii) in Schedule 8 (repeals), the entries relating to:


(a) the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;

(b) the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; and

(c) section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

     3. The following provisions of Schedule 4 to the 2002 Act shall come into force on 2nd December 2002 in the police areas[3] of Devon and Cornwall, Gwent, Lancashire, Northamptonshire, West Yorkshire and the metropolitan police district only - 

(a) paragraph 2 (3), (4), (5)(b) and (c);

(b) paragraph 3(2); and

(c) paragraph 4.

     4. The following provisions of the 2002 Act shall come into force on 1st January 2003 - 

(a) section 59 (seizure of vehicles); and

(b) paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 (seizure of vehicles by police civilians).

     5. Section 82 (nationality requirements) of the 2002 Act, to the extent not already in force, shall come into force on 3rd February 2003.


John Denham
Minister of State

Home Office
5th November 2002

[2] 1998 c. 37.back

[3] The term "police area" has the meaning ascribed to it in section 101 of the Police Act 1996 (c. 16) by virtue of Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30).back

  Prepared 25 November 2002