The Immigration, Nationality and Asylum (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Police Trainee Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

27.  The existing provisions of regulation 2A of the Police Trainee Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1) (qualifications for appointment as a police trainee) become paragraph (1) of that regulation and—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) of those provisions, for “a Member State, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein” substitute “the United Kingdom or an EEA State”;

(b) after those provisions insert—

“(2) In this regulation—

“EEA State”, in relation to a time, means—

(a)

a state which at that time is a member State, or

(b)

any other state which at that time is a party to the EEA agreement;

“national of the United Kingdom” means—

(a)

a British citizen,

(b)

a person who is a British subject by virtue of Part 4 of the British Nationality Act 1981 and who has the right of abode in the United Kingdom, or

(c)

a person who is a British overseas territories citizen by virtue of a connection with Gibraltar.”.

(1)

S.R. 2001 No. 369. Regulation 2A was inserted by S.R. 2008 No. 314. There have been other amendments to the Regulations which are not relevant to these Regulations.