The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017

Prospective

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011E+W

24.  In section 29—

(a)for subsection (1), substitute—

“(1) A police and crime panel may require—

(a)the mayor;

(b)the deputy mayor for policing and crime;

(c)members of staff of the combined authority deployed wholly or partly in relation to the mayor’s PCC functions; and

(d)any members of the combined authority who exercise any function of the mayor pursuant to arrangements made under section 18,

to attend before the panel (at reasonable notice) to answer any question which appears to the panel to be necessary in order for it to carry out its functions.”.

(b)for subsection (2), substitute—

“(2) Nothing in subsection (1) requires a person to give any evidence, or produce any document, which discloses advice given to—

(a)the mayor in relation to the mayor’s PCC functions;

(b)the deputy mayor for policing and crime; or

(c)a member of the combined authority who exercises any function of the mayor pursuant to arrangements made under section 18.”.

(c)for subsection (5), substitute—

“(5) Any person referred to in subsection (1)(b), (c) or (d) must comply with any requirement imposed on them under that subsection.”;

(d)in subsection (6), after “commissioner” insert “or “the deputy mayor for policing and crime”.