Police Support Staff (Suitability) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Suitability: business interests

3.—(1) Save in so far as the Chief Constable may allow at the request of the applicant concerned, a person is unsuitable for appointment under section 4(3) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 to a post in the police support staff, with a view to his being designated under section 30 or 30A of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003, if—

(a) he holds any office or employment for hire or gain (otherwise than as a member of the police support staff) or carries on any business; or

(b) he, or any relative holds, or possesses a pecuniary interest in, a licence or permit granted in pursuance of the law relating to liquor licensing, refreshment houses or betting and gaming or regulating places of entertainment in Northern Ireland.

(2) In paragraph (1)(b) “relative”, in relation to an applicant, means—

(a) the father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, son, daughter, stepson, stepdaughter, grandmother, grandfather, grandson or granddaughter of that applicant or that applicant’s spouse or former spouse, or

(b) the brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece or nephew (whether of the full blood or the half blood or by affinity) of that applicant or of that applicant’s spouse or former spouse,

and includes, in relation to an applicant who is living or has lived with another person as husband and wife, any person who would fall within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) if the parties were married to each other.