Court Security Officers (Designation and Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 No. 326

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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2005 No. 326
SUPREME COURT
COUNTY COURTS
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
Court Security Officers (Designation and Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

	Made	3rd July 2005
	To be laid before Parliament
	Coming into operation	25th July 2005

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 3 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004[1] hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Court Security Officers (Designation and Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 25th July 2005.

Training requirements for court security officers
2. —(1) Before a person may be designated or employed as a court security officer, he must provide the Lord Chancellor with documentary evidence that he has completed one or more training courses which include instruction in the following—

(2) Where the Lord Chancellor has designated or employed a person as a court security officer, he may subsequently require that person to undergo—

and the Lord Chancellor may make different determinations in respect of different officers, courts, court buildings and areas.

Proof of identity and other requirements
3. Before a person may be designated or employed as a court security officer, the Lord Chancellor shall:

(a) obtain proof of the person's identity;

(b) obtain a declaration from that person as to whether he has any unspent criminal convictions within the meaning of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978[

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 3rd July 2005

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Schedule 3 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4) makes provision about court security officers. These Regulations prescribe—

before a person may be designated or employed as a court security officer.

Regulation 2 sets out the content of the required training. Regulation 3 sets out requirements about proof of identity, criminal record declarations and criminal record checks.

Notes:

[1] 2004 c. 4 back

[2] S.I. 1978/1908 (N.I. 27)back

ISBN 0 337 96094 1

Prepared 2 August 2005

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