The Northern Ireland Policing Board (Prescribed Period) Regulations 2000

Made: 7th December 2000

Laid before Parliament .

Coming into force: 14th December 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000[^f00001], the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Northern Ireland Policing Board (Prescribed Period) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 14th December 2000.

• (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[^f00002] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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• (1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the prescribed period for the purposes of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 shall be seven days.

• (2) For the purposes of paragraph 7(5) and (11) the prescribed period may be such shorter period, not less than two days, as is agreed by the Secretary of State and the nominating officer.

Signed

Peter Mandelson — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 7th December 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

Under paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, which came into force on Royal Assent, the Secretary of State initiates the process of appointment of political members to the Northern Ireland Policing Board by requesting the nominating officers of the parties with the greatest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly to nominate members of the Board from amongst their Assembly members. Paragraph 7 enables the Secretary of State, by regulation, to prescribe the period during which the necessary steps have to be taken.

These Regulations prescribe a period of seven days save that, by agreement, the period may be reduced to no less than two days in the case of individual nominations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c. 32

[^f00002]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)