Statutory Instruments
POLICE
Made
18th December 1998
Laid before Parliament
23rd December 1998
Coming into force
1st January 1999
In exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4(2) of the Police Act 1996(1), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Number of Members of South Wales Police Authority Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.
2. The number of members of the South Wales Police Authority shall be nineteen, of which six members shall be persons appointed under paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Police Act 1996 (and, accordingly, by virtue of paragraph 1(2)(a) and (c) of that Schedule, ten members shall be members of relevant councils appointed under paragraph 2 of it and the remainder shall be magistrates appointed under paragraph 8 of it).
Paul Boateng
Minister of State
Home Office
18th December 1998
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the number of members of the South Wales Police Authority from seventeen (under section 4(1) of the Police Act 1996) to nineteen.
1996 c. 16; the power in section 4(2) is extended by paragraph 1(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to that Act.