Garda Síochána Act, 1972

Determination by Government of ranks of Garda Síochána and maximum number of persons of each rank.

1.—(1) The members of the Garda Síochána shall be divided into such ranks as the Government may determine from time to time by order.

(2) Each rank of the Garda Síochána shall consist of not more than such number of members of the Garda Síochána as the Government may determine from time to time by order.

(3) An order under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.