Police (Scotland) Act 1967
The Police Act 1967 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which until 2013 provided a framework for territorial police forces in Scotland to operate within. The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, passed by the Scottish Parliament set out arrangements for organisations to replace those set out in this act.
The act did not generally apply to any police force operating in Scotland whose jurisdiction is not defined by either local authority boundaries or by the national boundary of Scotland; certain individual sections deal with the necessary exercise of some police powers by specified non-Scottish or all-United Kingdom forces.
All Justice matters are devolved to the Scottish Government under the Scotland Act 1998, however, and Scotland has its own civil and criminal legal systems quite separate and distinct from those in England and Wales.
The act lead to the repeal of Police (Scotland) Act 1956. This act also repealed the whole of Police (Scotland) Act 1966.