Police Act 1996

Police Act 1996^[1]
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate the Police Act 1964, Part IX of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Chapter I of Part I of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 and certain other enactments relating to the police.
Citation	1996 c. 16
Territorial extent	England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland;
Dates
Royal assent	22 May 1996
Other legislation
Amends	Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994;
Repeals/revokes	Police Act 1964;
Amended by	Police Reform Act 2002; Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011;
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Police Act 1996 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Police Act 1996 (c. 16) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which defined the current police areas in England and Wales, constituted police authorities for those areas, and set out the relationship between the Home Secretary and the English and Welsh territorial police forces. It replaced the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994, which in turn had replaced the Police Act 1964.

^ "Police Act 1996: Section 106", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 22 May 1996, 1996 c. 16 (s. 106), retrieved 19 December 2019. "This Act may be cited as the Police Act 1996."