PART IIIMANAGEMENT OF AIRPORTS
Appointment of constables for an airport19
1
An airport operator authorised in that behalf by the F3Department of Justice may appoint any person employed by the operator to be a constable on the airport managed by that operator.
2
An authorisation under this Article may be granted subject to such conditions as the F4appropriate authority thinks fit.
F52A
In this Article “appropriate authority” means—
a
in relation to conditions which affect an excepted or reserved matter otherwise than incidentally, the Secretary of State; and
b
otherwise, the Department of Justice;
and for the purposes of this paragraph, “excepted matter” and “reserved matter” have the same meanings as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
2B
An authorisation under this Article shall not be granted until the Secretary of State has given notice in writing to the Department of Justice—
a
specifying the conditions of the kind referred to in paragraph (2A)(a) to which the authorisation, if granted, is to be subject; or
b
declaring that the authorisation, if granted, is not to be subject to any such conditions.
3
Every person appointed under paragraph (1) shall on his appointment make a declaration before a justice of the peace to execute the office of a constable on the airport for which he was appointed, and, when he has made the declaration, he shall on that airport have the powers and privileges and be liable to the duties and responsibilities of a constable.
4
Constables appointed under this Article shall be under the exclusive control of the airport operator by whom they are appointed and that operator may suspend or terminate the appointment of any such constable.
5
For the purposes of—
F1a
the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996; and
b
the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992F2,
the holding of the office of constable under this Article on any airport shall be treated as work under a contract of employment with the airport operator; and, accordingly, for those purposes, service in such office shall not be treated as police service within the meaning of those Orders.