Police Reserve Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Business interests acquired by police reserve trainees

4.—(1) Regulation 4 of the reserve trainee regulations (prohibited business interests) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) The Chief Constable may give notice in writing to a police reserve trainee that a business interest is incompatible with him remaining a police reserve trainee if—

(a) the police reserve trainee—

(i) holds any office or employment for hire or gain (otherwise than as a police reserve trainee), or

(ii) carries on any business, or

(iii) holds, or possesses a pecuniary interest in, a relevant licence or permit,

which, if held, possessed or carried on after his appointment as a reserve constable, could reasonably be regarded as affecting his ability to discharge his duties as a reserve constable in accordance with the code of ethics; or

(b) a relative holds, or possesses a pecuniary interest in, a relevant licence or permit, and the holding of that licence or permit or the possession of that pecuniary interest after his appointment as a reserve constable could reasonably be regarded as affecting his ability to discharge his duties as a reserve constable in accordance with the code of ethics.”

(3) For paragraph (7) (meaning of relative included in his family) substitute—

“(7) Any reference in this regulation to a relative, in relation to a police reserve trainee, means—

(a) the father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, son, daughter, stepson, stepdaughter, grandmother, grandfather, grandson or granddaughter of that police reserve trainee or the spouse or former spouse of that police reserve trainee, or

(b) the brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece or nephew (whether of the full blood or the half blood or by affinity) of that police reserve trainee or of the spouse or former spouse of that police reserve trainee,

and includes, in relation to an police reserve trainee who is living or has lived with another person as husband and wife, any person who would fall within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) if the parties were married to each other.”

(4) After paragraph (7) insert—

“(8) The Chief Constable may give guidance to police reserve trainees and applicants for appointment as police reserve trainees in connection with business interests which—

(a) may make a person unsuitable for appointment as a police reserve trainee, and

(b) may be incompatible with a person remaining a police reserve trainee.

(9) The Chief Constable shall publish any guidance issued under paragraph (8).”