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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Police
Made
4th April 2023
Coming into operation
28th April 2023
The Department of Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1) and 26(1) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998( 1), makes the following Regulations. Those powers are now vested in the Department( 2).
In accordance with sections 25(8) and 26(6) of that Act the Department has consulted the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Police Association for Northern Ireland before making these Regulations.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Service of Northern Ireland (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and shall come into operation on 28th April 2023.
2.—(1) The Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2005( 3) shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In regulation 3(1) in paragraph (a) of the definition of “public holiday”, for 2023 only, after “first Monday in May” insert “, second Monday in May”.
3.—(1) The Police Service of Northern Ireland and Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006( 4) shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In Schedule 1 in the definition of “public holiday”, for 2023 only, after “first Monday in May” insert “, second Monday in May”.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2005 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 to allow for the additional public holiday on 8th May 2023, to mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
1998 c. 32. Relevant amendments are made by section 78(1) and paragraph 23 of Schedule 6 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.
Article 5 of and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 3 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order ( S.I. 2010/976) transferred the regulation making powers of the Secretary of State to the Department of Justice.
S.R. 2005 No. 547. Recent relevant amendment made by S.R. 2022 No. 217.
S.R. 2006 No. 268. Recent relevant amendment made by S.R. 2022 No. 217.