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136: Appointing parliamentary security officers

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The chief executive can appoint someone as a parliamentary security officer by giving them a written notice. You can be appointed if you are an employee of the Parliamentary Service and have completed a training course that the chief executive is happy with. The chief executive can also appoint someone else if they think it is necessary or desirable, and if that person has the right qualifications and training. The chief executive can set conditions or limitations on the appointment in the written notice. If someone is appointed as a parliamentary security officer under certain circumstances, they are considered to be an employee of the Parliamentary Service, and certain rules apply to them, such as those outlined in section 132. Your appointment as a parliamentary security officer ends when you are no longer eligible for the role. An approved training course is a programme of training that the chief executive has approved after consulting the Commissioner of Police and the chief executive of the Ministry of Justice.

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Parliamentary Service: Parliamentary security officers

136Appointing parliamentary security officers

  1. The chief executive may, by notice in writing, appoint any of the following as a parliamentary security officer:

  2. an employee of the Parliamentary Service who has completed an approved training course to the satisfaction of the chief executive:
    1. if the chief executive considers it necessary or desirable, any other person who the chief executive is satisfied—
      1. is qualified and trained to a standard at least equivalent to the standard of qualification and training reached by an employee of the class referred to in paragraph (a); or
        1. belongs to a class of persons who are qualified and trained to a standard at least equivalent to the standard of qualification and training reached by an employee of the class referred to in paragraph (a).

        2. The chief executive may, in the notice, specify conditions of, or limitations on, the parliamentary security officer’s appointment.

        3. A person appointed as a parliamentary security officer under subsection (1)(b) is deemed to be an employee of the Parliamentary Service appointed under section 132(1), and section 132 applies accordingly.

        4. To avoid doubt, a person’s appointment as a parliamentary security officer ends when the person ceases to be eligible for appointment as a parliamentary security officer.

        5. In subsection (1)(a), approved training course means a programme of training that the chief executive has approved, after having consulted—

        6. the Commissioner of Police; and
          1. the chief executive of the Ministry of Justice.