The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 396 (C. 19)

POLICE

The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001

Made

29th October 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 79 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001.

2.  The provisions of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 specified in the Schedule to this Order shall come into operation on 4th November 2001.

3.  Section 57 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 does not require the Board to issue a report relating to a period before section 2 of the Act comes into force.

John Reid

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Northern Ireland Office

29th October 2001

Article 2

SCHEDULE Provisions of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 coming into operation on 4th November 2001

Provision of Act	Subject matter of provision
Part I	Name of the Police in Northern Ireland
Part II, apart from— (i) so much of section 2 as is already in force, and (ii) section 3(3)(d)(iii)	The Northern Ireland Policing Board
Part IV	Policing Objectives, Plans and Codes of Practice
Section 32	General functions of the police
Section 33	General functions of Chief Constable
Section 34	Exercise of functions of Chief Constable in cases of absence, incapacity etc.
Section 35	Appointment and removal of senior officers
Section 36	Appointments and promotion of other police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland
Section 37	Appointments to the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve
Section 38	Attestation of constables
Section 42	Police Cadets
Section 45	Recruitment arrangements: other ranks
Section 48	Action plans
Section 51	Notifiable memberships
Section 52	Code of ethics
Section 53	Guidance as to use of equipment for maintaining or restoring public order
Section 54	Regulations as to emblems and flags
Section 55	Identification of police officers
Section 56	Co-operation with Garda Siochana
Part VII, apart from section 57(2)(i) and (j)	Reports and Inquiries
Section 63	Reports by Ombudsman to Chief Constable and Board
Section 64	Supply of information by Ombudsman to Board
Section 66	Access by Ombudsman to information and documents
Section 69	General duty of Secretary of State
Section 71	Traffic Wardens
Section 73	Places of detention: lay visitors
Section 74	Application to police of anti-discrimination legislation
Section 78, to the extent that it is not already in force, but not for the purposes of paragraph 14 of Schedule 6 or paragraph 3 of Schedule 7	Amendments, transitional and transitory provisions and repeals
Schedule 1, to the extent that it is not already in force	The Northern Ireland Policing Board
Schedule 2	Transfer of functions, assets, liabilities and staff of Police Authority of Northern Ireland
Schedule 5	Application of anti-discrimination legislation to the police
Schedule 6, apart from (i) the provisions which are already in force, and (ii) paragraph 14	Amendments
Schedule 8	Repeals

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Commencement Order which is the third to be made under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, brings into operation on 4th November 2001 those provisions of the Act set out in the Schedule to the Order.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order.)

1.  The following provisions of the Act were brought into operation on 22nd December 2000 by S.I. 2000/412 (c. 32)—

• Section 43

• Section 44

• Section 62

• Section 65

• Section 78 and Schedules 6 and 7 (partially).

2.  The following provisions of the Act were brought into operation on 30th March 2001 by S.I. 2001/132 (c. 6)—

• Section 20

• Section 39

• Section 40

• Section 41

• Section 46

• Section 47

• Section 50

• Section 70

• Section 78 for the purposes of the provision of Schedule 6 mentioned below

• Schedule 6, paragraph 24(3).

(1)

2000 c. 32