Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024
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Amendment of annual service plan following approval under section 65 | ||
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66. (1) The Minister may, after approving an annual service plan under section 65 , direct the Garda Commissioner to submit an amended annual service plan and shall specify in the direction the manner in which the plan is to be amended. | ||
(2) Subsections (2) to (9) of section 65 shall apply with the necessary modifications in respect of a direction by the Minister under subsection (1). | ||
(3) The Garda Commissioner may, subject to subsections (4) and (5), amend an annual service plan that has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas under subsection (10). | ||
(4) Subsections (2) to (4) of section 65 shall apply with the necessary modifications in respect of an amendment of an annual service plan in accordance with subsection (3). | ||
(5) The Garda Commissioner shall, as soon as practicable and in any event not later than 5 days after the adoption of an amended annual service plan by the Board, submit the plan to the Minister. | ||
(6) The Minister may, within 21 days after receiving an annual service plan amended in accordance with subsection (3)— | ||
(a) direct the Garda Commissioner to further amend the plan specifying the manner in which the plan is to be amended, or | ||
(b) notify the Garda Commissioner that he or she intends to amend the plan in consultation with him or her. | ||
(7) The Garda Commissioner shall comply with a direction issued to him or her under subsection (6)(a). | ||
(8) Unless a direction or notification under subsection (6) is issued by the Minister within the period specified in that subsection, the annual service plan as amended in accordance with subsection (3) shall be deemed to have been approved by the Minister immediately before the end of that period. | ||
(9) Where the Minister issues a direction in accordance with subsection (6)(a), any amendment of an annual service plan by the Garda Commissioner in accordance with subsection (3) shall have no effect until it is approved by the Minister. | ||
(10) Subject to section 65 (14), the Minister shall, as soon as practicable, cause a copy of an annual service plan amended in accordance with this section to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas— | ||
(a) where the plan is amended pursuant to a direction under subsection (1), after such amendment, or | ||
(b) where the plan is amended in accordance with subsection (3)— | ||
(i) after such amendment is approved by the Minister, or | ||
(ii) where subsection (8) applies, after the expiry of the period referred to in that section. | ||
(11) The Garda Commissioner shall ensure that, as soon as practicable after a copy of an annual service plan is laid before each House of the Oireachtas under subsection (10), the plan as laid is published on a website maintained by or on behalf of An Garda Síochána or in such other manner as the Minister may specify. |