Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003

9 After section 21C (inserted by paragraph 8 above) insert—

“21D Reports by Belfast district policing partnership to Board

(1) The district policing partnership for Belfast shall, whenever so required by the Board, submit to the Board a report on any matter which is specified in the requirement and is connected with the exercise of—

(a) its functions, or

(b) the functions of a sub-group established under section 21.

(2) A report under this section shall be made—

(a) in such form as may be specified in the requirement under subsection (1); and

(b) within the required period or such longer period as may be agreed between the district policing partnership and the Board.

(3) The required period is—

(a) 4 months from the date on which the requirement under subsection (1) is made, if the requirement relates wholly or in part to the functions of a sub-group;

(b) 3 months fromthe date on which the requirement under subsection (1) is made, in any other case.

(4) When the district policing partnership submits its report under subsection (1) it shall at the same time send to the Board copies of any related sub-group report.

(5) The Board may arrange for the publication, in such manner as appears to the Board to be appropriate, of—

(a) a report submitted under subsection (1);

(b) a related sub-group report.

(6) A “sub-group report” is a report submitted to the district policing partnership under section 21C.

(7) A sub-group report is related to a report submitted in pursuance of a requirement under subsection (1) if the district policing partnership imposed the requirement to submit the sub-group report to enable it to comply with the requirement under subsection (1).”