Garda Síochána Act, 2005

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 20/2005
• Year: 2005

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Number 20 of 2005

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GARDA SÍOCHÁNA ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 11 January 2022

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This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Garda Síochána Act 2005. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including the Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 (50/2021), enacted 23 December 2021, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 11 of 2022), made 11 January 2022, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

Disclaimer: While every care has been taken in the preparation of this Revised Act, the Law Reform Commission can assume no responsibility for and give no guarantees, undertakings or warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature of the information provided and does not accept any liability whatsoever arising from any errors or omissions. Please notify any errors, omissions and comments by email to

revisedacts@lawreform.ie.

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Number 20 of 2005

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GARDA SÍOCHÁNA ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 11 January 2022

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Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

Garda Síochána Acts 2005 to 2015: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (49/2015), s. 1(2)). The Acts in this group are:

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (20/2005)

• Criminal Justice Act 2007 (29/2007), ss. 41-43

• Garda Síochána (Amendment) Act 2015 (3/2015), other than ss. 12 and 13

• Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (49/2015)

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Coroners (Amendment) Act 2019 (29/2019)

• Criminal Justice (International Co-Operation) Act 2019 (27/2019)

• Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016 (4/2016)

• Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (49/2015)

• Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Act 2015 (40/2015)

• Garda Síochána (Amendment) Act 2015 (3/2015)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (30/2014)

• Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 (25/2014)

• Court of Appeal Act 2014 (18/2014)

• Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (14/2014)

• National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 (47/2012)

• Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (24/2010)

• Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 (19/2009)

• Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (14/2008)

• Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 (7/2008)

• Criminal Justice Act 2007 (29/2007)

All Acts up to and including Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 (50/2022), enacted 23 December 2021, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 11 of 2022)

Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 757 of 2021)

Garda Síochána (Associations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 603 of 2021)

• Garda Síochána (Associations) (Superintendents and Chief Superintendents) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 483 of 2021)

• Garda Síochána (Appointment to the Ranks of Inspector and Sergeant) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 370 of 2021)

• Garda Síochána (Associations) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 275 of 2021)

• Justice (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 252 of 2021)

• Garda Síochána (Associations) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 605 of 2020)

• Garda Síochána (Reserve Members) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 603 of 2020)

• Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 602 of 2020)

• Garda Síochána (Ranks) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 287 of 2020)

• Garda Síochána (Specified Ranks) (Severance Programme) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 668 of 2019)

• Garda Síochána (Associations) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 657 of 2018)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Retirement) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 28 of 2018)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) (No. 5) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 200 of 2017)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) (No. 4) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 199 of 2017)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) (No. 3) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 198 of 2017)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) (No. 2) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 197 of 2017)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiry relating to the Garda Síochána) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 196 of 2017)

• Garda Síochána (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 642 of 2016)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Appointments to the ranks of Assistant Garda Commissioner, chief superintendent and superintendent) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 641 of 2016)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 52) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 640 of 2016)

• Garda Síochána (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 639 of 2016)

• Policing Authority (Establishment Day) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 611 of 2015)

• Garda Síochána (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 503 of 2015)

• Garda Síochána (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 334 of 2015)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Commencement) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 271 of 2015)

• Garda Síochána (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 331 of 2014)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 42) (Special Inquiries relating to Garda Síochána) Order 2013 (S.I. No. 481 of 2013)

• Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 470 of 2013)

• Garda Síochána (Retirement) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 260 of 2013)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 52) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 128 of 2012)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Police Service of Northern Ireland Appointments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 127 of 2012)

• Garda Síochána (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 620 of 2011)

• Garda Síochána (Associations) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 619 of 2011)

• Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011)

• Garda Síochána (Ranks) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 390 of 2009)

• Garda Síochána (Retirement) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 205 of 2009)

• Garda Síochána (Ranks) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 53 of 2009)

• Garda Síochána (Ranks) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 192 of 2008)

• Garda Síochána (Retirement) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 771 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 217 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 216 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána (Discipline) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 214 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána (Confidential Reporting of Corruption Or Malpractice) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 168 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána (Ranks) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 28 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Commencement) (Section 8) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 16 of 2007)

• Garda Síochána (Retirement) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 686 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána (Retirement) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 680 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Section 19(5)) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 620 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 509 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána (Promotion) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 485 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána (Reserve Members) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 413 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána Inspectorate (Establishment Day) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 401 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 377 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána (CCTV) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 289 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána (Ranks) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 286 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána Act 2005 (Commencement) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 129 of 2006)

• Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Establishment Day) Order 2005 (S.I. No. 802 of 2005)

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