No. 107/1942:

GÁRDA SÍOCHÁNA (APPOINTMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1942.

GÁRDA SÍOCHÁNA (APPOINTMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1942.

WHEREAS by sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925) it is enacted that the Minister for Justice may from time to time, subject to the approval of the Government, make regulations in relation to the appointment and enrolment of members of the Gárda Síochána :

NOW, the Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 14 of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby, with the approval of the Government, makes the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Gárda Síochána (Appointments) Regulations, 1942.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. In these Regulations—

the expression " the Principal Regulations " means the Gárda Síochána (Appointments) Regulations, 1937 ( S. R. & O. No. 59 of 1937 ) ;

the expression " the Commissioner " means the Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána ;

the expression " the Force " means the Gárda Síochána ;

the expression " air-raid precautions service " means an air-raid precautions service established under a scheme approved of under section 13 or section 38 of the Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939 (No. 21 of 1939).

4. Paragraph (1) of Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended—

(i) by the deletion in subparagraph (a) of the words " and is between the ages of 19 and 27 years ", and

(ii) by the addition of the following subparagraph :

" (e) he has or will have, on the 1st day of July in the year in which the qualifying educational examination is held, attained the age of 19 years but not attained the age of 23 years."

5. The Commissioner shall not appoint and enrol any person as a member of the Force unless he is satisfied that such person—

(a) is a member of the Defence Forces, or

(b) was, on the 31st day of December, 1941, a member of the Local Defence Force, the Local Security Force, or an air-raid precautions service, and has continued as such member without interruption from that date until the date of his appointment and enrolment as a member of the Force.

6. Notwithstanding anything contained in Regulation 5 of these Regulations or in Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations as amended by Regulation 4 of these Regulations, the Commissioner may appoint and enrol any person as a member of the Force without the qualifications of such person being certified for the purposes of such appointment and enrolment by the Civil Service Commissioners under the said Regulation 4 as so amended provided—

(a) that such person was formerly a member of the Taca Síochána and had therein two years' service satisfactory to the Commissioner, and

(b) that such person is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, suitable for admission to the Force.

7. Where a certificate in relation to any person is given under Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations as amended by Regulation 4 of these Regulations, the Commissioner shall not appoint and enrol such person as a member of the Force by virtue of such certificate after the 31st day of December next following the date of such certificate.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Justice, this 11th day of March, 1942.

(Signed) G. BOLAND.