Regulation 7 Standing OrdersI1

about the basis on which any qualification specified for the purposes of regulation 3(b) is awarded, and the arrangements for any course of study leading to that qualification and any examinations or assessment of a police trainee’s performance;

for the conduct of any other training specified by the Chief Constable for the purposes of regulation 3(c);

for any duties to be performed by police trainees as part of their period of service as police trainees;

about where training is to take place, and when and for how long police trainees are required to attend at any site where training takes place;

as permitted under regulation 4, requiring police trainees to attend training in the evening, on public holidays and at weekends;

enabling the Chief Constable, or such person (being a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland of a rank not lower than chief inspector) as is specified in the standing orders, to grant a police trainee special leave from training;

about uniform and equipment for police trainees;

for the appointment of medical practitioners, and the circumstances in which police trainees are to be examined by a medical practitioner;

for the determination by a medical practitioner appointed under standing orders of whether a police trainee is fit to attend training, whether a period of quarantine of a police trainee should end, or whether the absence of a police trainee from training is, for the purposes of regulation 18(4), directly attributable to an injury received as a consequence of a person’s service as a police trainee;

for the resolution of any difference of opinion about questions mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) between a medical practitioner appointed under standing orders and a medical practitioner who issued a certificate under regulation 12(2);

for the circumstances in which, following a difference of opinion such as is described in sub-paragraph (j), a police trainee ceases to be entitled to be absent from training under regulation 12;

for procedures for cases in which the Chief Constable is considering exercising his powers under regulation 5 (extending period of service) or regulation 6 (terminating period of service);

for the maintenance of discipline of police trainees;

for standards of conduct for police trainees and procedures for cases in which it is alleged that the conduct of a police trainee did not meet those standards;

enabling the Chief Constable or such other person (being a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland of a rank not lower than chief inspector) as may be specified in the standing orders to suspend a police trainee (with or without pay) in cases such as are described in sub-paragraph (n);

enabling the Chief Constable or such other person (being a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland of a rank not lower than chief inspector) as may be specified in the standing orders to impose sanctions on a police trainee in cases such as are described in sub-paragraph (n).