Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003
Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003 (2003 c. 6)
- Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003 (2003 c. 6)
- Part 1 Policing
- Consultation by Secretary of State
- 1 Long-term policing objectives
- 2 Codes of Practice
- The Northern Ireland Policing Board
- 3 Board’s policing objectives
- 4 Public meetings of the Board
- 5 Contracts relating to detention and escort services
- 6 Funding for pension purposes
- 7 Accounts and audit
- 8 Performance summaries
- 9 Performance summaries: supplementary
- Reports and inquiries
- 10 Reports of Chief Constable
- 11 Inquiries by Board
- 12 Approval of proposals relating to inquiries by Board
- The Police Ombudsman
- 13 Investigations into current police practices and policies
- District policing partnerships
- 14 Independent members: appointment
- 15 Independent members: declaration against terrorism
- 16 Independent members: disqualification
- 17 Disqualification following removal from office
- 18 Council’s powers
- 19 Belfast
- Police functions and service
- 20 Core policing principles
- 21 Chief Constable’s functions
- 22 Provision of information to Board
- 23 Appointment of constables with special policing skills
- 24 Fixed-term appointments
- 25 Members of PSNI engaged on other police service
- 26 Protected disclosures by police officers
- Information and inquiries
- 27 Restriction on disclosure of information
- 28 Special committee of the Board
- 29 Disclosure of information and holding of inquiries
- Part 2 Police powers
- Designation of civilians
- 30 Police powers for designated police support staff
- 30A Community support officers
- 31 Police powers for designated contracted-out staff
- 32 Police powers: amendments
- 33 Designations: supplementary
- 34 Complaints and misconduct
- 34A Secretary of State’s power to make regulations
- 35 Liability for unlawful conduct
- 36 Notifiable memberships
- 37 Code of ethics
- 38 Assaults on, and obstruction of, designated persons
- 39 Impersonation etc. of designated persons
- 40 Designated persons: interpretation
- Searches and samples
- 41 Intimate searches
- 42 Intimate samples
- Codes of practice
- 43 Codes of practice
- Part 3 General
- 44 Orders and regulations
- 45 Repeals and revocations
- 46 Extent
- 47 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Belfast
- SCHEDULE 2 Powers exercisable by designated persons
- Part 1 Investigating officers
- Entry and search for purposes of arrest
- Entry and search for evidence etc.
- Access to excluded and special procedure material
- Entry and search after arrest
- General power of seizure
- Access and copying in the case of things seized by constables
- Arrest at a police station for another offence
- Power to transfer persons into custody of investigating officers
- Powers in respect of detained persons
- Power to require arrested person to account for certain matters
- Extended powers of seizure
- Persons accompanying investigating officers
- Part 2 Detention officers
- Attendance at police station for fingerprinting
- Non-intimate searches of detained persons
- Searches and examinations to ascertain identity
- Fingerprinting
- Warnings about intimate samples
- Non-intimate samples
- Attendance at police station for the taking of a sample
- Photographing detained persons
- Taking of impressions of footwear
- Powers in respect of detained persons
- Use of reasonable force in relation to detained persons
- Powers in relation to information about intimate search, x-ray and ultrasound
- Part 3 Escort officers
- Power to take an arrested person to a police station
- Escort of persons in police detention
- Part 4 Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 2A POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICER
- Powers to issue fixed penalty notice
- Power to require name and address: relevant offences
- Power to require name and address: road traffic offences
- Power to detain etc
- Confiscation of alcohol: public processions
- Confiscation of alcohol: young persons
- Confiscation of tobacco etc
- Search and seizure powers: alcohol and tobacco
- Powers to seize and retain: controlled drugs
- Powers to seize and retain: psychoactive substances
- Entry to save life or limb or prevent serious damage to property
- Entry to investigate licensing offences
- Power to stop vehicles
- Power to direct traffic and place traffic signs
- Carrying out of road checks
- Cordoned areas
- Power to stop and search vehicles etc in authorised areas
- Powers in relation to fireworks
- Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 3 Police powers: amendments
- Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12))
- Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11)
- SCHEDULE 4 Repeals and revocations
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