Section 76A applies in relation to any other body of constables or cadets as it applies in relation to a police force, but as if any reference—
to the chief officer of police were to the officer or other person who has the direction and control of the body in question;
to the police authority were to the authority by whom the members of the body are paid;
to the police fund were to money provided by that authority.
Constables serving with the Serious Organised Crime Agency do not constitute a body of constables for the purposes of subsection (2).
In relation to a member of a police force or a special constable who is not under the direction and control of the chief officer of police for that police force or, as the case may be, for the police area to which he is appointed, references in section 76A to the chief officer of police are references to the chief officer under whose direction and control he is.