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(1) These regulations may be cited as the Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004.
(2) These regulations shall come into operation on 1st October 2004.
2 

(1) In regulation 9(1)(c) of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 (requirement for candidate to be certified as being in good health, of sound constitution and fitted physically and mentally to perform his duties) the words “in good health, of sound constitution and” shall be omitted.
(2) In regulation 2(2)(c) of the Police (Recruitment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001 (qualified candidate for appointment as a police trainee or police reserve trainee must be certified as being in good health, of sound constitution and fitted physically and mentally to perform the duties of a police officer) the words “in good health, of sound constitution and” shall be omitted.
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(1) In regulation 5 of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 (part-time appointments) –
(a) paragraph (3) (under which a part-time appointment to the rank of constable is permitted only where period of probation completed), and
(b) paragraph (4) (under which a part-time appointment to a rank above sergeant must be a job-share arrangement),
shall cease to have effect.
(2) In Schedule 1 to those regulations (modification for part-time service) –
(a) in paragraph 1, in regulation 2(5) as inserted by that paragraph, for “above the rank of sergeant” there shall be substituted “in a job-share arrangement”, and
(b) in paragraph 4, in the substitute provisions for regulation 20 set out in that paragraph –
(i) in regulation 20(4) at the end there shall be inserted “and, in the case of a member who is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, shall consider whether any duty to make reasonable adjustments under section 4A of that Act requires him to alter the member’s normal period of duty”;
(ii) in regulation 20(4ZA) at the end there shall be inserted “or where it appears to the Chief Constable or the member that any duty to make reasonable adjustments under section 4A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 may require the Chief Constable to alter the member’s normal period of duty”;
(iii) in regulation 20(4ZB) at the end there shall be inserted “and, in the case of a member who is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, shall consider whether any duty to make reasonable adjustments under section 4A of that Act requires him to alter the member’s normal period of duty”; and
(iv) regulation 20(4B) shall cease to have effect.
Paul Murphy
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
4th September 2004