Defence (Amendment) Act 2011
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Amendment of section 184K of Principal Act. |
6.— (1) Section 184K(1) of the Principal Act is amended— | |
(a) by inserting “, and persons other than officers,” after“identifying officers”, and | ||
(b) by inserting “, and such persons,” after “the suitability of those officers”. | ||
(2) Section 184K of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2): | ||
“(2A) A committee established under this section, having considered— | ||
(a) the service of an officer, other than an officer referred to in section 184J(3), who is a qualified barrister or solicitor in a position in the full-time service of the State (including as a member of the Permanent Defence Force and as a civil servant within the meaning of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 ) for any period following that qualification, and | ||
(b) the duties and role discharged by the officer in relation to the service, during that period, | ||
may determine that it is satisfied that— | ||
(i) such duties and role are substantially similar in substance and effect to those discharged by an officer referred to in section 184J(3), and | ||
(ii) such duties and role were carried out by the officer on a day to day basis throughout that period.”. | ||
(3) Section 184K(3) of the Principal Act is amended— | ||
(a) by inserting “, or, as the case may be, one, or more than one, person other than an officer,” after “select an officer or officers”, and | ||
(b) by substituting “the officer or officers, or such person or persons, so selected,” for “the officer or officers so selected”. | ||
(4) Section 184K(4) of the Principal Act is amended— | ||
(a) by inserting “, or a person other than an officer,” after “name of an officer”, in both places where it occurs, | ||
(b) by substituting “the officer or person concerned” for “the officer concerned”, and | ||
(c) by inserting “or person” after “in the opinion of the committee, the officer”. | ||
(5) Section 184K(5) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “or a person other than an officer” after “An officer”. |