Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925

Regulations as to internal management of amalgamated force.

14.—(1) The Minister may from time to time subject to the approval of the Executive Council, make regulations in relation to all or any of the matters following, that is to say:—

(a) the admission, appointment, and enrolment of members of the amalgamated force;

(b) the promotion, retirement, degradation, dismissal, and punishment of members of the amalgamated force;

(c) the duties of the several ranks of the amalgamated force;

(d) the maintenance, training, discipline, and efficiency of the amalgamated force;

(e) the formation of representative bodies of members of the amalgamated force;

(f) any other matter or thing relating to the internal management of the amalgamated force.

(2) All orders and regulations made under section 5 of the Dublin Police Act, 1836 , or section 8 of the Dublin Police Act, 1924 , and in force at the commencement of this Act may be amended or revoked by regulations made under this section and until so revoked and subject to any such amendment shall (notwithstanding the repeal of those sections) continue in force and shall apply to the members of the amalgamated force stationed in the Dublin Metropolitan Area.

(3) All orders and regulations made under section 16 of the Gárda Síochána Act, 1924 , or made under section 18 of the Gárda Síochána (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 , and continued by section 21 of the Gárda Síochána Act, 1924 , and in force at the commencement of this Act may be amended or revoked by regulations made under this section and until so revoked and subject to any such amendment shall (notwithstanding the repeal of those sections) continue in force and shall apply to members of the amalgamated force stationed outside the Dublin Metropolitan Area.

(4) 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.

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