1 Aid by home police forces of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and vice versaU.K.

(1)The chief officer of police of a police force maintained under the M1Metropolitan Police Act 1829, the Act of the second and third years of Queen Victoria intituled “An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London” (commonly known as the M2City of London Police Act 1839), the M3Police Act 1964 or the M4Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (hereafter in this Act referred to as a “home police force”) may, on the application of the Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or of such other person as may be designated for the purposes of this subsection by order of the Secretary of State, provide constables or other assistance for the purpose of enabling the last-mentioned force to meet a special demand on its resources.

(2)The Secretary of State, if satisfied . . . F1 that it is expedient in the interests of public safety or order that the Royal Ulster Constabulary should be reinforced or should receive other assistance for the purpose of enabling it to meet a special demand on its resources and that satisfactory arrangements under the foregoing subsection cannot be made or cannot be made in time, may, at his request, direct the chief officer of a home police force to provide such constables or other assistance for that purpose as may be specified in the direction.

(3)A constable shall, during any period during which he is provided under this section for the assistance of the Royal Ulster Constabulary be under the like direction and control as a member of that force notwithstanding section 5(1) of the M5Police Act 1964 or section 17(2) of the M6Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (controlling powers of chief constables).

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2 Provisions for facilitating the engagement of members of home police forces for periods of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. U.K.

(1)The following provisions shall have effect with respect to a member (other than the chief officer) of a home police force who, with the consent of the appropriate authority and the Secretary of State, engages for a period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, namely:—

(a)during that period (or if, during the course thereof, he is dismissed from the Royal Ulster Constabulary or is required to resign as an alternative to dismissal, during such part of that period as ends when he is dismissed or required to resign) he shall, except for the purpose of his being promoted in his home force, be treated as if he were not a member thereof; and

(b)he shall, when, by virtue of the foregoing paragraph, he ceases (except for the purpose aforesaid) to be treated as if he were not a member of his home force, be entitled to revert to that force—

(i)if he has not been promoted in that force during his period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, in the rank in which he was serving immediately before he engaged for a period of service in the last-mentioned force;

(ii)if he has been so promoted, in the rank to which he has been promoted.

(2)Where, in the case of a person to whom the foregoing subsection applies, the period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary for which he engages is, with the consent of the appropriate authority and the Secretary of State, extended or curtailed, paragraph (a) of that subsection shall have effect in relation to him as if, for the references to that period, there were substituted references, as the case requires, to the extended period or the curtailed period.

(3)A person to whom subsection (1) above applies who is dismissed or required to resign as mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection shall, for the purposes of the Police (Discipline) Regulations, be deemed to have committed, as a member of his home force, an offence against discipline, and may be dealt with under those Regulations accordingly; and for the purposes of this subsection a certificate that such a person has been so dismissed or required to resign, being a certificate given by or on behalf of the Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or such other person, or such authority, as may be designated for the purposes of this subsection by order of the Secretary of State, shall be evidence (and, in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of that fact.

(4)Paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the M7 Police Act 1964 (which, in a case where, at a time when a member of a police in England or Wales is on central service or is serving overseas, that force is amalgamated with another, converts his right of reversion to his force into a right of reversion to the amalgamated force) shall have effect as if, after sub-paragraph (b) thereof, there were inserted the following words—

“or

(c)section 2 of the Police Act 1969”,

and section 24(1) of the M8 Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (which makes similiar provision in the case of a member of a police force in Scotland) shall have effect as if, after paragraph (b) thereof, there were inserted the same words.

(5)In this section—

(a)“appropriate authority”, in relation to a member of a home police force, other than an assistant chief constable or a deputy chief constable, means the chief officer of that force acting with the consent of the police authority therefor and, in the case of an assistant chief constable or deputy chief constable of such a force, means that authority;

(b)“Police (Discipline) Regulations” means, in relation to a police force within the meaning of the M9Police Act 1964, the regulations relating to discipline for the time being in force under section 33 of that Act and, in relation to a police force within the meaning of the M10Police (Scotland) Act 1967, the regulations relating to discipline for the time being in force under section 26 of that Act.

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6 Orders.U.K.

A power conferred by this Act to make an order shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and a power conferred by any of the foregoing provisions of this Act to make an order shall be construed as including a power, exercisable in the like manner, to vary or revoke the order.

7 Short title and commencement.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Police Act 1969.

(2)This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Secretary of State may be order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions.