{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reserve-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reserve-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/2",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reserve Trainee Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reserve-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Termination of service of a police reserve trainee",
  "text": "(1) A person shall cease to be a police reserve trainee on his appointment as a reserve constable.\n(2) Where a person has served as a police reserve trainee for a period of 48 weeks (“the relevant period”), but –\n(a) has not completed the training specified under regulation 2(b), or\n(b) has not demonstrated physical competence under regulation 2(c),\nthe Chief Constable may terminate his service as a police reserve trainee by giving him one week’s notice in writing on the expiry of the relevant period.\n(3) The Chief Constable may at any time terminate a person’s period of service as a police reserve trainee by giving him one week’s notice in writing –\n(a) if he considers that he is not likely to become an efficient or well-conducted reserve constable on completion of his period of service as a police reserve trainee; or\n(b) if, following an examination by a medical practitioner appointed or approved by the Chief Constable, the Chief Constable considers that he –\n(i) is not fit, physically or mentally, to be a police reserve trainee, or\n(ii) is not likely to be fit, physically or mentally, to be a reserve constable on completion of his period of service as a police reserve trainee; or\n(c) if the police reserve trainee refuses, without reasonable excuse, to undergo an examination by a medical practitioner appointed or approved by the Chief Constable; or\n(d) if he is found to have taken a controlled drug under regulation 4A(3)(b), or fails to give a sample as required under regulation 4A(1).\n(4) Any termination of a period of service under paragraph 9(2) or (3) shall be carried out in accordance with any such provision as may be made by standing orders under regulation 10.\n(5) A police reserve trainee may end his period of service as a police reserve trainee by giving one week’s notice in writing to the Chief Constable.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9(3)(d) and word inserted (1.9.2008) by Police (Testing for Substance Misuse) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/325), regs. 1(2), 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in operation at 8.2.2004, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/2/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:38.490080+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."
}