Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024
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Admission of trainees | ||
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53. (1) The Garda Commissioner may, in accordance with regulations (if any) under section 254 (1)(c), arrange for the admission of such numbers of persons as trainees (in this Act referred to as a “trainee”) as he or she considers appropriate with a view to the appointment under section 50 , and enrolment, of such persons as members of An Garda Síochána. | ||
(2) The conditions of service of a trainee shall be governed by a contract of training (which shall not be a contract of employment) entered into between the Garda Commissioner and the trainee. | ||
(3) A person who was admitted as a trainee within the meaning of, and in accordance with, the Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 470 of 2013 ) and who, at the time of the coming into operation of this section, remains in training— | ||
(a) shall be deemed to have been admitted as a trainee under subsection (1), and | ||
(b) shall continue in such training in accordance with— | ||
(i) this Act, | ||
(ii) the regulations, and | ||
(iii) to the extent to which the terms and conditions of his or her admission in accordance with the Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) Regulations 2013 are not inconsistent with this Act or the regulations, those terms and conditions. |