Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Part-time) (Discipline and Disciplinary Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Part-time) (Discipline and Disciplinary Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into operation on 15th March 1997.

(2) In these regulations, any reference to the principal regulations is a reference to the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Part-time) (Discipline and Disciplinary Appeals) Regulations 1988(1).

Interpretation of the principal regulations

2.—(1) In regulation 2(1) of the principal regulations—

(a) the definition of “home police force” shall be omitted; and

(b) there shall be inserted after the definition of “Order of 1987” the following definition—

“police force in Great Britain” has the meaning assigned to a police force in the Police Act 1996(2) or a police force in the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(3), as the case may be;.

(2) In the principal regulations for the words “home police force”, in each place where they occur as specified in the Schedule, there shall be substituted the words “police force in Great Britain”.

Internal appeals

3.  Regulation 22 of the principal regulations shall be amended—

(a) in paragraph (4) by substituting for the words “The appeal” the words “Subject to paragraph (4A), the appeal”; and

(b) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following paragraph—

“(4A) In the case of an appeal—

(a) in which the chief constable—

(i) is interested otherwise than in his capacity as such; or

(ii) is or was a material witness; or

(iii) whether before or after his appointment as chief constable was the officer who conducted or, as the case may be, a member of the disciplinary board which conducted the hearing out of which the appeal rose; and

(b) to which the proviso to paragraph (4) applies,

the appeal shall be remitted by the chief constable to such a chief officer of a police force in Great Britain as, at his request, has agreed to act in the matter.”.

P. B. B. Mayhew

One of Her Masjesty'sPrincipalSecretaries of State

Northern Ireland Office

4th February 1997