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2001 No. 396 (C. 19)

POLICE

The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001

  Made 29th October 2001 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 79 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000[1], hereby makes the following Order:

     1. This Order may be cited as the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001.

    
2. The provisions of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 specified in the Schedule to this Order shall come into operation on 4th November 2001.

    
3. Section 57 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 does not require the Board to issue a report relating to a period before section 2 of the Act comes into force.


John Reid
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Northern Ireland Office
29th October 2001



SCHEDULE
Article 2


Provisions of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 coming into operation on 4th November 2001


Provision of Act Subject matter of provision
Part I Name of the Police in Northern Ireland
Part II, apart from - 

      (i) so much of section 2 as is already in force, and

      (ii) section 3(3)(d)(iii)

The Northern Ireland Policing Board
Part IV Policing Objectives, Plans and Codes of Practice
Section 32 General functions of the police
Section 33 General functions of Chief Constable
Section 34 Exercise of functions of Chief Constable in cases of absence, incapacity etc.
Section 35 Appointment and removal of senior officers
Section 36 Appointments and promotion of other police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland
Section 37 Appointments to the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve
Section 38 Attestation of constables
Section 42 Police Cadets
Section 45 Recruitment arrangements: other ranks
Section 48 Action plans
Section 51 Notifiable memberships
Section 52 Code of ethics
Section 53 Guidance as to use of wquipment for maintaining or restoring public order
Section 54 Regulations as to emblems and flags
Section 55 Identification of police officers
Section 56 Co-operation with Garda Siochana
Part VII, apart from section 57(2)(i) and (j) Reports and Inquiries
Section 63 Reports by Ombudsman to Chief Constable and Board
Section 64 Supply of information by Ombudsman to Board
Section 66 Access by Ombudsman to information and documents
Section 69 General duty of Secretary of State
Section 71 Traffic Wardens
Section 73 Places of detention: lay visitors
Section 74 Application to police of anti-discrimination legislation
Section 78, to the extent that it is not already in force, but not for the purposes of paragraph 14 of Schedule 6 or paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 Amendments, transitional and transitory provisions and repeals
Schedule 1, to the extent that it is not already in force The Northern Ireland Policing Board
Schedule 2 Transfer of functions, assets, liabilities and staff of Police Authority of Northern Ireland
Schedule 5 Application of anti-discrimination legislation to the police
Schedule 6, apart from

      (i) the provisions which are already in force, and

      (ii) paragraph 14

Amendments
Schedule 8 Repeals



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)


This Commencement Order which is the third to be made under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, brings into operation on 4th November 2001 those provisions of the Act set out in the Schedule to the Order.



NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order.)


     1. The following provisions of the Act were brought into operation on 22nd December 2000 by S.I. 2000/412 (c. 32) - 

     2. The following provisions of the Act were brought into operation on 30th March 2001 by S.I. 2001/132 (c. 6) - 


Notes:

[1] 2000 c. 32back



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Prepared 6 February 2002


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