Legislation – Police and Justice Act 2006
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to :
- s. 17 omitted by 2022 c. 32 Sch. 11 para. 38(1)(b)
- s. 18 omitted by 2022 c. 32 Sch. 11 para. 38(1)(b)
- Sch. 2 para. 19 repealed by 2008 c. 4 Sch. 28 Pt. 8
- Sch. 4 para. 3 repealed by 2014 c. 12 Sch. 11 para. 102
- Sch. 4 para. 10 repealed by 2014 c. 12 Sch. 11 para. 102

Police and Justice Act 2006
An Act to establish a National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about police forces and police authorities and about police pensions; to make provision about police powers and about the powers and duties of community support officers, weights and measures inspectors and others; to make provision about the supply to the police and others of information contained in registers of death; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to make further provision about certain inspectorates; to amend Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990; to make provision about the forfeiture of indecent images of children; to provide for the conferring of functions on the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the exercise of enforcement functions by officials involved with immigration and asylum; to amend the Extradition Act 2003; to make further provision about the use of live links in criminal proceedings; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—