This Statutory Rule has been printed in substitution of the S.R. of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Rule
2003 No. 372
POLICE
Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Made 7th August 2003
To be laid before Parliament 
Coming into operation 5th September 2003
The Secretary of State, in pursuance of sections 25 and 26 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 and section 44 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, after consulting the Northern Ireland Policing Board, the Chief Constable, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and the Police Association for Northern Ireland, hereby makes the following regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) These regulations may be cited as the Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.
(2) These regulations shall come into operation on 5th September 2003.
Appointment as police trainee or police reserve trainee
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In regulation 2(2) of the Police (Recruitment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001 (qualified candidate for appointment as a police trainee or police reserve trainee) –
(a) for sub-paragraph (a) (candidate must be British subject, Commonwealth citizen or citizen of the Republic of Ireland) there shall be substituted –“
(a) who, if not a national of a State which is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993, must have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for an indefinite period;” and
(b) in sub-paragraph (f) (candidate must demonstrate skills and competencies by tests or assessments) in each of sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) after “skills and competencies” there shall be inserted “(including competency in written and spoken English)”.
Other appointments to the PSNI
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Paul Murphy
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
7th August 2003