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POLICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 21

Provisions for facilitating the engagement of members of the RUC with other UK police forces.

21.(1) The following provisions shall have effect with respect to a member
(other than the Inspector General) of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who, with
the consent of the Inspector General and the Minister engages for a period of
service in another United Kingdom police force, namely

(a)during that period (or if, during the course thereof, he is dismissed from
that other force or is required to resign as an alternative to dismissal,
during such part of that period as ends when he is is dismissed or required to
resign) he shall, except for the purpose of his being promoted in the Royal
Ulster Constabulary, be treated as if he were not a member thereof; and

(b)he shall, when, by virtue of paragraph (a), he ceases (except for the
purpose aforesaid) to be treated as if he were not a member of the Royal
Ulster Constabulary, be entitled to revert to that Constabulary

(i)if he has not been promoted in that Constabulary during his period of
service in the other United Kingdom police force, in the rank in which he was
serving immediately before he engaged for a period of service in that force;

(ii)if he has been so promoted, in the rank to which he has been promoted.

(2) Where, in the case of a person to whom subsection (1) applies, the period
of service in another United Kingdom police force for which he engages is,
with the consent mentioned in that subsection, extended or curtailed,
paragraph (a) of that subsection shall have effect in relation to him as if,
for the references to that period, there were substituted references, as the
case requires, to the extended period or the curtailed period.

(3) A person to whom subsection (1) applies who is dismissed or required to
resign as mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection shall, for the
purposes of the Police (Discipline) Regulations, be deemed to have committed,
as a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary an offence against discipline,
and may be dealt with under those Regulations accordingly; and for the
purposes of this subsection a certificate that such a person has been so
dismissed or required to resign, being a certificate given by or on behalf of
the chief officer of the other United Kingdom police force in which he serves
or the police authority maintaining that force shall be evidence of that fact.

(4) In this section "Police (Discipline) Regulations" means the rules, orders
or regulations for the time being in force with respect to the discipline of
the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

S.22 rep. by 1980 c.10 s.3(3)(b)


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