Transitional provision 5A Limitation on redeployment of constables (1) Subsection (2) applies to a constable of the Police Service of Scotland who— 10 (a) immediately before the transfer date, is a constable of the British Transport Police Force (including any such constable who is, at that time, engaged in service outwith that force), and (b) is transferred to the Police Service of Scotland on the 15 transfer date by or under an enactment. (2) A constable to whom this subsection applies— (a) is to be assigned duties that relate to the policing of a railway or railway property, and (b) must not be assigned duties that do not so relate unless it is 20 necessary to meet a special demand on resources for policing. (3) If a constable to whom subsection (2) applies is, on the transfer date, engaged in service outwith the Police Service of Scotland, the limitation in subsection (2) is suspended until such time as the 25 service outwith the Police Service of Scotland ends. (4) Subsection (2) ceases to apply to a constable if, on or after the transfer date, the constable gives the chief constable written consent to the lifting of the limitation imposed by that subsection. (5) In this section— 30 “chief constable” means the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland, “policing” has the meaning given by section 99 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, Railway Policing (Scotland) Bill 11 “railway” and “railway property” have the meanings given by section 85M of that Act, “transfer date” means the date on which the enactment which transfers the constable to the Police Service of Scotland provides for the transfer to occur. 5 General Ancillary provision 6 (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in 10 connection with or for giving full effect to this Act. (2) Regulations under this section may— (a) modify any enactment (including this Act), (b) make different provision for different purposes. (3) Regulations under this section which contain provision adding to, 15 replacing or omitting any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure. (4) Otherwise, regulations under this section are subject to the negative procedure. 20 7 Commencement (1) This section, section 6 and section 8 come into force on the day after Royal Assent. (2) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint. (3) Regulations under this section may— 25 (a) include transitional, transitory or saving provision, (b) make different provision for different purposes. 8 Short title The short title of this Act is the Railway Policing (Scotland) Act 2017. 30
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