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POLICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 2

Transfer of property to the Police Authority.

2.(1) There shall, on the appointed day, be transferred to and vest in the
Police Authority by virtue of this Act:

(a)all the estates held immediately before that day by the Ministry of Home
Affairs (in this Act referred to as "the Ministry") or the Ministry of Finance
in land used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary;

(b)all equipment, furniture or other moveable property then owned by the
Ministry or the Ministry of Finance and used on or in connection with such
land for those purposes; and

(c)all rights and liabilities to which the Ministry or the Ministry of Finance
was entitled or subject immediately before that day, being rights and
liabilities acquired or incurred solely in connection with any such land,
equipment, furniture or other moveable property.

(2) There shall also, on the appointed day, be transferred to and vest in the
Police Authority by virtue of this Act all vehicles, apparatus, furniture,
fittings, clothing and other equipment owned by the Ministry and held
immediately before that day wholly or mainly for use for the purposes of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary and all rights and liabilities to which the Ministry
was entitled or subject immediately before that day in connection with the
supply of vehicles, apparatus, furniture, fittings, clothing or other
equipment wholly or mainly for use for those purposes.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall operate to transfer to or vest in
the Police Authority any estate in land or any furniture, equipment, or other
moveable property held by the Ministry or the Ministry of Finance for the use
of the Ulster Special Constabulary but notwithstanding anything in section 5
of the Stormont Regulation and Government Property Act (Northern Ireland) 1933
either Ministry may dispose of any such estate in land or any such moveable
property held by it to such persons and on such terms as may be jointly agreed
by both Ministries.

(4) The Ministry with the approval of the Ministry of Finance may by
regulations make such provision supplementary to or consequential on the
provisions of subsections (1) and (2) as appears to the Ministry to be
necessary or expedient, and in particular, but without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing may provide by such regulations

(a)for the determination by arbitration, in default of agreement, of any
question arising as to whether any property, right or liability will be or has
been transferred under those subsections;

(b)where any property, right or liability transferred under this section or
the title to any such property or right is entered on any register kept in
pursuance of any enactment, for the amendment of the entry by the person
keeping the register;

(c)for enabling pending proceedings relating to any property, rights or
liabilities transferred under this section to be continued; and

(d)for substituting, as from the appointed day, for any reference in any
enactment, judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, rule,
byelaw, certificate or other document affecting any property, right or
liability transferred under this section and passed or made before the
appointed day, to the Ministry or to the Ministry of Finance, or for any
reference which is to be construed as a reference to the Ministry or as a
reference to the Ministry of Finance, a reference to the Police Authority.


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