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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-recruitment-northern-ireland-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/140",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Recruitment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-recruitment-northern-ireland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Meanings assigned to certain expressions etc",
  "text": "(1) The following expressions have the meaning hereby assigned to them:—\n“the Act” means the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000;\n“the agent” means the police recruitment agent appointed under regulation 4;\n“British subject” and “Commonwealth citizen” have the meanings assigned to them by section 51 of the British Nationality Act 1981;\n“the Independent Assessor” means a person appointed under regulation 13(1);\n“independent community observers” means persons appointed under regulation 10(1);\n“independent panel member” means a person nominated under regulation 12(2);\n“lay assessors” means persons engaged in carrying out duties under regulation 9;\n“the police” has the same meaning as in section 77 of the Act;\n“Police Authority” means the Police Authority for Northern Ireland;\n“police reserve trainees” means persons appointed under section 40 of the Act;\n“police support staff” has the same meaning as in section 4(6) of the Act;\n“police trainees” means persons appointed under section 39 of the Act;\n“Policing Board” means the Northern Ireland Policing Board;\n“Promotion Regulations” means the regulations relating to qualifications and selection for promotion for the time being in force;\n“the Report of the Independent Commission” means the report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (“A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland” published on 9th September 1999);\n“Road Traffic Orders” has the meaning assigned by Article 2 (2) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;\n“staff of the Police Authority” means a person appointed under subsection (1), persons employed under subsection (3), or persons engaged in pursuance of arrangements under subsection (4) of section 3 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998;\n“staff of the Policing Board” means persons employed or engaged in pursuance of arrangements under paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Act.\n(2) A qualified candidate means an applicant for appointment to the police:—\n(a) who is a British subject, a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland;\n(b) who has attained the age of 18 years and is not over 52 years if a candidate for appointment as a police trainee;\n(c) who has been certified by a registered medical practitioner approved by the Chief Constable to be in good health, of sound constitution and fitted both physically and mentally to perform the duties of a police officer;\n(d) who gives such information as may be required by the Chief Constable or in accordance with regulation 7 as to the candidate’s suitability for appointment to the police including satisfactory references as to his character;\n(e) who is not ineligible for appointment by virtue of regulation 8(1) of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 or Schedule 1 (criminal convictions etc);\n(f) who demonstrates by such tests or assessments as may be determined by the Chief Constable or carried out in accordance with regulation 8 that he possesses the skill and competencies required to carry out the duties of a police officer;\n(g) whom the panel established under regulation 12 decides is suitable for appointment as a police trainee or police reserve trainee; and\n(h) who, if a candidate for appointment to the rank of sergeant or inspector, is qualified for promotion to such rank in accordance with the Promotion Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 5.4.2001, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 61"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 473"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "nisr/2008/314",
      "affecting_title": "Police Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
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      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "Police Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
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      "affecting": "nisr/2008/314",
      "affecting_title": "Police Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
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      "type": "words omitted",
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    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/391",
      "affecting_title": "Police Reserve Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/379",
      "affecting_title": "Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/372",
      "affecting_title": "Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/372",
      "affecting_title": "Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
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      "type": "words omitted",
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  },
  "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."
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