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Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003

Section 28: Special committee of the Board

73.This section amends paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act to provide for the establishment of a special purposes committee to handle sensitive information supplied to it by the Chief Constable under section 59 of the 2000 Act or by a person conducting an inquiry under section 60 of that Act. The amendment requires the committee to be constituted of 7 members of the Board, including one or both of the chairman or the vice-chairman of the Board and, as far as practicable, that it should be representative of the Board.

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