Dublin Police Act, 1924

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 31/1924

Number 31 of 1924.
DUBLIN POLICE ACT, 1924.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section 1. Definitions. 2. Change of style and title of Chief Commissioner. 3. Appointment of Commissioner. 4. Appointment of Assistant Commissioner. 5. Powers of Commissioner and duties and functions of Assistant Commissioner. 6. Declaration to be made by members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. 7. Employment of Dublin Metropolitan Police outside the Police District of Dublin Metropolis. 8. Power of Minister to make regulations. 9. Abolition of office of Accountant. 10. Adaptation of certain enactments. 11. Reinstatement of certain members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. 12. Inquiry into charges against members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. 13. Repeals. 14. Short title.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Form of Declaration
SECOND SCHEDULE
Enactments Repealed
Act Referred to Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1923 No. 34 of 1923
Number 31 of 1924.
DUBLIN POLICE ACT, 1924.
AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE BETTER ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE AND FOR THAT AND OTHER PURPOSES TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE SAID POLICE. [28th July, 1924.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—
	Definitions.	1.—In this Act—
	the expression “the Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police;
	the expression “the Assistant Commissioner” means the Assistant Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police;
	the expression “the Accounting Officer” means the public officer to whom the duty of preparing the appropriation account in relation to the Dublin Metropolitan Police is for the time being assigned by the Minister for Finance;
	the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Justice.
	Change of style and title of Chief Commissioner.	2.—From and after the passing of this Act the Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall be styled and known as the Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
	Appointment of Commissioner.	3.—(1) From and after the passing of this Act the Commissioner shall be appointed and may at any time be removed by the Executive Council.
	(2) The appointment of William R. E. Murphy to be Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police is hereby confirmed as on and from the 5th day of May, 1923, subject to his making and subscribing before a Peace Commissioner a declaration in the form contained in the First Schedule to this Act, and subject to the qualifications that from and after the passing of this Act his style and title shall be Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, and that the provisions of this Act relating to the Commissioner shall apply to him.
	Appointment of Assistant Commissioner.	4.—(1) From and after the passing of this Act the Assistant Commissioner shall be appointed by the Executive Council.
	(2) The person now holding the office of Assistant Commissioner, and any person hereafter appointed to that office may at any time be removed from that office by the Executive Council.
	Powers of Commissioner and duties and functions of Assistant Commissioner.	5.—(1) From and after the passing of this Act the general direction and control of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall, subject to regulations made by the Minister under this Act, be vested in the Commissioner.
	(2) From and after the passing of this Act the duties and functions of the Assistant Commissioner shall be to assist the Commissioner in the direction and control of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and to exercise such functions in that behalf as the Commissioner shall, subject to regulations made by the Minister under this Act, assign to him.
	(3) If and whenever after the passing of this Act the Commissioner is temporarily absent or is incapacitated by illness from performing his duties, or the office of Commissioner is vacant, the Minister may authorise the Assistant Commissioner to exercise or perform, during such absence incapacity or vacancy, all or any of the powers and duties of the Commissioner.
	Declaration to be made by members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.	6.—(1) No person appointed before the passing of this Act to be an officer or other member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall be capable of holding that office, or acting in any way therein after the expiration of one month from the passing of this Act unless he has before the passing of this Act taken the oath for the time being required by law to be taken by officers or other members (as the case may require) of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, or shall before the expiration of the said month make and subscribe before a Peace Commissioner a declaration in the form contained in the First Schedule to this Act.
	(2) No person appointed after the passing of this Act to be an officer or other member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall be capable of holding that office or acting in any way therein until he shall have made and subscribed before a Peace Commissioner a declaration in the form contained in the First Schedule to this Act.
	Employment of Dublin Metropolitan Police outside the Police District of Dublin Metropolis.	7.—(1) Whenever the Minister is satisfied, on the advice of or after consultation with the Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána and after consultation with the Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, that in order to meet an existing or anticipated disturbance or other special circumstances or otherwise for the better enforcement of law it is necessary or expedient to employ members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police on police duties outside the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, the Minister may by order authorise and direct so many of the members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police to be employed in assisting the Gárda Síochána in such places or areas in Saorstát Eireann outside the Police District aforesaid as he may specify in such order.
	(2) It shall be the duty of every member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police employed outside the Police District aforesaid to act in conjunction with or in substitution for the Gárda Siοchána in the place or area in which they are so employed, and for that purpose such members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police are hereby authorised and required to perform such duties and exercise such powers as are by law imposed on or vested in members of the Gárda Síochána of equivalent...