SCHEDULEAmendment of Statutory Instruments and Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland relating to NCIS and NCS and in connection with SOCA

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1

The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 200341 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 11(1) at the beginning insert “Subject to regulation 11A,”.

3

In regulation 11(2) at the beginning insert “Subject to regulation 11A,”.

4

In regulation 11(7), paragraph (b) of the definitions of “chief officer of police”, “police authority” and “police fund” is revoked.

5

After regulation 11 insert—

Serious Organised Crime Agency11A

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For the purposes of this Part, any constable or other person who has been seconded to SOCA to serve as a member of its staff shall be treated as employed by SOCA.

2

For the purposes of regulation 22 (liability of employers and principals)—

a

the secondment of any constable or other person to SOCA to serve as a member of its staff shall be treated as employment by SOCA (and not as being employment by any other person); and

b

anything done by a person so seconded in the performance, or purported performance, of his functions shall be treated as done in the course of that employment.

3

In this regulation “SOCA” means the Serious Organised Crime Agency.