Seconded ICRIR officersU.K.
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17(1)Seconded ICRIR officers are under the direction and control of the ICRIR in the same way as employed ICRIR officers.
(2)In the case of the secondment of a member of a police force to be a seconded ICRIR officer—
(a)arrangements for the secondment are to be made with the chief officer of that police force; and
(b)the arrangements must provide for the ICRIR to pay the policing body responsible for that police force the amount that is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the arrangements.
(3)If a seconded ICRIR officer is a constable in any police force, the powers and privileges which that person has by virtue of being a constable are not exercisable in Northern Ireland—
(a)from the time when the person becomes an ICRIR officer;
(b)but are revived if the person—
(i)ceases to be an ICRIR officer, and
(ii)returns to service as a constable.
(4)Sub-paragraph (3) ceases to apply to a person who resigns from, or otherwise ceases to hold, the office of constable.
(5)Service as a seconded ICRIR officer is—
(a)relevant service for the purposes of section 27 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (members of the PSNI engaged on other police service), if the person seconded is a member of the PSNI,
(b)relevant service for the purposes of section 97 of the Police Act 1996 (police officers engaged on service outside their force), if the person seconded is a member of a police force as defined in section 101 of that Act), and
(c)temporary service outwith the Police Service of Scotland under section 15(1) of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), if the person seconded is a constable in the Police Service of Scotland.
(6)If a member of the PSNI is a seconded ICRIR officer, the application of—
(a)section 35 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, or
(b)any provision under the law of England and Wales or Scotland that has a corresponding effect,
to the person does not affect the person’s ability, as an ICRIR officer, to be a member of any trade union or association.
(7)In this paragraph—