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Amendment of section 22 of Principal Act
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20. Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1) :
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“(1) The Garda Commissioner shall each year prepare a policing plan setting out the proposed arrangements for policing services for the following year.”,
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(b) in subsection (2) —
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(i) in paragraph (e), by the substitution of “Government policy;” for “Government policy.”, and
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(ii) by the addition of the following paragraph:
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“(f) the policing principles.”,
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(c) in subsection (4), by the substitution of “the Authority” for “the Minister”,
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(d) in subsection (5) —
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(i) by the substitution of “The Authority shall, with the consent of the Minister, approve” for “The Minister shall approve”, and
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(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):
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“(b) with such amendments as the Authority with the consent of the Minister, after consulting with the Garda Commissioner, may determine.”,
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and
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(e) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (6):
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“(6) As soon as practicable after the approval of the policing plan under subsection (5), the Authority shall send a copy of the approved policing plan to the Minister and the Minister shall cause a copy of it to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after he or she receives it.”.
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