Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

Transfer of staff of Policing Authority

155. (1) Every person who, immediately before the establishment day of the Authority, was a member of the staff of the Policing Authority shall, on that day, become and be a member of the staff of the Authority, and shall continue to hold a position in the Civil Service of the State.

(2) Save in accordance with any enactment or a collective agreement negotiated with any recognised trade union or staff association, a person referred to in subsection (1) shall not on the establishment day of the Authority be subject to less beneficial terms and conditions of service (including those relating to tenure of office) or remuneration than the terms and conditions of service or remuneration to which he or she was subject immediately before that day.

(3) The terms and conditions to which a person is subject upon his or her becoming a member of the staff of the Authority in accordance with subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been determined by the Authority in accordance with section 131 .

(4) In relation to persons referred to in subsection (1), previous service shall be reckonable for the purposes of, but subject to any exceptions or exclusions in, the following:

(a) the Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005;

(b) the Carer’s Leave Act 2001 ;

(c) the Maternity Protection Acts 1994 to 2022;

(d) the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts 1973 to 2005;

(e) the National Minimum Wage Acts 2000 and 2015;

(f) the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 ;

(g) the Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2023;

(h) the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 ;

(i) the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 ;

(j) the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 ;

(k) the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001 ;

(l) the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2022;

(m) the Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2014;

(n) the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015.