Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925

PART III.

ADAPTATION OF ENACTMENTS.

Formation of representative bodies in the amalgamated force.

17.—(1) So much of sections 1 and 2 (which relate to the constitution of representative bodies and to constables being members of trade unions) of the Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act, 1919 , and of any rules made thereunder in force at the commencement of this Act as relates to the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall apply to the amalgamated force subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—

(a) references to the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall be construed and take effect as references to the members of the amalgamated force stationed within the Dublin Metropolitan Area;

(b) references to the chief officer shall be construed and take effect as references to the Commissioner of the amalgamated force;

(c) references to the Lord Lieutenant shall be construed and take effect as references to the Minister.

(2) Section 13 (which relates to the formation of representative bodies in the Gárda Síochána) of the Gárda Síochána Act, 1924 , and any orders made under section 16 of the same Act in relation to the formation of such representative bodies and in force at the commencement of this Act shall apply to the amalgamated force subject to the modification that references to the Gárda Síochána shall be construed and take effect as references to the members of the amalgamated force stationed outside the Dublin Metropolitan Area.

(3) For the purpose of this section members of the amalgamated force stationed at the Headquarters of the force in Dublin or at the Depot in Phoenix Park, Dublin, who were members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be stationed within the Dublin Metropolitan Area, and all other members of the amalgamated force stationed at the Headquarters aforesaid or the Depot aforesaid shall be deemed to be stationed outside the Dublin Metropolitan Area.