# The Police Authority Regulations 2008, Regulation 38: Functions of selection panel – short-listing


(1) Where appointments to a police authority are to be made under regulation 9 the selection panel for the authority’s area shall nominate persons willing to be candidates for appointment.
(2) Unless there are only a smaller number of persons willing to be candidates who are not disqualified from being members, the number of persons to be nominated by a selection panel under this regulation on any occasion shall be a number twice the number of appointments to be made under regulation 9.
(3) Unless there are only a smaller number of lay justices willing to be candidates who are not disqualified from being members, where by virtue of regulation 11 the appointments to be made under regulation 9 must include the appointment of a person who is a lay justice then the persons to be nominated by a selection panel under this regulation on any occasion shall include two persons who are a lay justice.
(4) A person shall not be nominated under this regulation in relation to a police authority if, by virtue of regulation 14, 15, 16 or 17 he is disqualified from being appointed as a member of the police authority under regulation 9.
(5) The persons nominated under this regulation shall form the short-list of persons for the purposes of regulation 9.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/630/regulation/38 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008/regulation-38
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