Police Powers for Designated Staff (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

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1.  For regulation 47 (panel conducting the hearing) substitute—

Panel conducting the hearing

47.(1) Where a case is referred to a hearing it shall be heard by a panel appointed by the Chief Constable.

(2) A panel appointed under paragraph (1) shall consist of—

(a)a barrister or solicitor, who shall be chairman,

(b)a police officer or member of a police force in Great Britain of the rank of superintendent or chief superintendent, or an employee holding an appropriate position in the police support staff, and

(c)another panel member who—

(i)is neither a serving officer in the police or in a police force in Great Britain nor a member of the police support staff, and

(ii)is eligible to sit on an employment tribunal or is a legal practitioner,

being persons who are selected from lists of eligible persons maintained by the Chief Constable and who are not interested parties.