Regulation 9 Lay assessorsI1

The agent shall establish a pool of lay assessors.

The agent shall ensure that lay assessors are involved in assessing candidates for appointment as police trainees and police reserve trainees.

No person who is a serving member of the police, the Police Authority, the staff of the Police Authority, the Policing Board, the staff of the Policing Board, or the police support staff shall be appointed as a lay assessor.

A person is disqualified from being a lay assessor if he has at any time been convicted in Northern Ireland or elsewhere of any offence and has had passed on him a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not).