Justice Bill
Clause 22: Delegation of functions of the Policing Board
Clause 22 allows the Policing Board to delegate any functions of the Board to Board officials. It is intended to use the new power to delegate a number of decisions to individual board members or staff.
This change is being made to allow the delegation of decision-making for matters such as pensions forfeiture, ill-health retirement, injury on duty and other miscellaneous benefits to speed up the process.
Clause 22
Functions relating to the police
Delegation of functions of the Policing Board
22. In Schedule 1 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (constitution etc of the NI Policing Board), after paragraph 24 insert—
“Delegation of functions
25.—(1) The Board may delegate any of the functions of the Board to—
(a) one or more members of the Board;
(b) one or more members of staff of the Board (employed as mentioned in paragraph 13(1) and (2)).
(2) A committee constituted under paragraph 24(1) or (1A) may delegate any of its functions to—
(a) one or more members of the committee;
(b) one or more members of staff of the Board (employed as mentioned in paragraph 13(1) and (2)).
(3) Functions delegated under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) are to be exercised under the general direction of the Board.”.