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6.—(1) A constable employed by statutory undertakers may stop, detain and search any vehicle before it leaves a goods area included in the premises of the statutory undertakers.

(2) In this section “goods area” means any area used wholly or mainly for the storage or handling of goods.

(3) For the purposes of section 6 of the Public Stores Act 1875, any person appointed under the Special Constables Act 1923 to be a special constable within any premises which are in the possession or under the control of British Nuclear Fuels Limited shall be deemed to be a constable deputed by a public department and any goods and chattels belonging to or in the possession of British Nuclear Fuels Limited shall be deemed to be Her Majesty’s Stores.

(4) In the application of subsection (3) above to Northern Ireland, for the reference to the Special Constables Act 1923 there shall be substituted a reference to paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2 to the Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1947.

7.—(1) The following enactments shall cease to have effect—
 * (a) section 8 of the Vagrancy Act 1824;
 * (b) section 66 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839;
 * (c) section 11 of the Canals (Offences) Act 1840;
 * (d) section 19 of the Pedlars Act 1871;
 * (e) section 33 of the County of Merseyside Act 1980; and
 * (f) section 42 of the West Midlands County Council Act 1980.

(2) There shall also cease to have effect—
 * (a) so much of any enactment contained in an Act passed before 1974, other than—
 * (i) an enactment contained in a public general Act; or
 * (ii) an enactment relating to statutory undertakers, as confers power on a constable to search for stolen or unlawfully obtained goods; and
 * (b) so much of any enactment relating to statutory undertakers as provides that such a power shall not be exercisable after the end of a specified period.

(3) In this part of this Act “statutory undertakers” means persons authorised by any enactment to carry on any railway, light railway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock or harbour undertaking.