HC Deb 31 October 1919 vol 120 c1078

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires The expression "chief officer" means in the case of the Royal Irish Constabulary tile Inspector-General, and in the case of the Dublin Metropolitan Police the Chief Commissioner; The expression "pensions" includes gratuities; and The expression "pensions and allowances of members" includes pensions and allowances of widows or children of members.

(2) This Act may be cited as the Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act, 1919.

Mr. HENRY

I beg to move, at the end of Sub-section. (1), to insert the words, For the purpose of the provisions of tins Act as to representative bodies a detective officer of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall be deemed to belong to the same rank as a constable of that force. This Amendment is simply to define the word detective. In the Dublin Metropolitan Police there is a separate division known as the G Division which represents the detective office of the police force, and it is to remove any possible doubt about the status of those in it that I move.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill,