{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where this Part comes into effect in relation to the Board, the political members shall be nominated by applying sub-paragraphs (3) to (8) within the prescribed period.\n(2) Where at any other time—\n(a) an Assembly is elected under section 31 or 32 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998;\n(b) a resolution which causes one or more Ministerial offices to become vacant is passed under section 30(2) of that Act; or\n(c) the period of exclusion imposed by a resolution under section 30(2) of that Act comes to an end,\nall political members shall cease to hold office and the political members shall be nominated by applying sub-paragraphs (3) to (8) within the prescribed period.\n(3) At the request of the Minister of Justice, the nominating officer of the political party for which the formula in sub-paragraph (7) gives the highest figure may nominate a person as a member of the Board who—\n(a) is a member of that party and of the Assembly; and\n(b) is not disqualified for membership of the Board.\n(4) The nominated person may take up office as a member of the Board by making a statement to that effect to the Minister of Justice.\n(5) If—\n(a) the nominating officer does not exercise the power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) within the prescribed period; or\n(b) the nominated person does not take up office as a member of the Board within that period,\nthat power shall become exercisable by the nominating officer of the political party for which the formula in sub-paragraph (7) gives the next highest figure.\n(6) Sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) shall be applied as many times as may be necessary to secure that all of the offices as political member are filled.\n(7) The formula is—\nwhere—\nS = the number of seats in the Assembly which were held by members of the party on the day on which the Assembly first met following its election; and\nM = the number of members of the party (if any) who hold office as a political member of the Board.\n(8) Where the figures given by the formula for two or more political parties are equal, each of those figures shall be recalculated with S being equal to the number of first preference votes cast for the party at the last general election of members of the Assembly.\n(9) A political member shall cease to hold office if—\n(a) he resigns by notice in writing to the Board;\n(b) he becomes disqualified for membership of the Board; or\n(c) he ceases to be a member of the Assembly otherwise than by virtue of a dissolution.\n(10) Where a person ceases to hold office as a political member otherwise than by virtue of sub-paragraph (2), the nominating officer of the party on whose behalf that person was nominated may nominate a person to hold the office who—\n(a) is a member of that party and of the Assembly; and\n(b) is not disqualified for membership of the Board.\n(11) If—\n(a) the nominating officer does not exercise the power conferred by sub-paragraph (10) within the prescribed period; or\n(b) the nominated person does not take up the office within that period,\nthe vacancy shall be filled by applying sub-paragraphs (3) to (8) within such further period as may be prescribed.\n(12) Where—\n(a) the Assembly has resolved under section 30(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 that a political party does not enjoy its confidence; and\n(b) the party’s period of exclusion has not come to an end,\nthe party shall be disregarded for the purposes of any application of sub-paragraphs (3) to (8).\n(13) In this paragraph—\n“nominating officer”, in relation to a party, means the person registered under Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 as the party’s nominating officer or a member of the Assembly nominated by him for the purpose;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister of Justice.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(3)(4) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 86(2) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(13) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 86(2) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7 modified (8.5.2007) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 (c. 53), ss. 2(2), 27(1), Sch. 2 para. 6 (with s. 1(3)) (as amended (retrospectively) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2007 (c. 4), s. 1(1)); S.I. 2007/1397, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/32/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:39.477204+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}