Police Association established

(1) For the purpose of enabling the members of the Belize Police Department to consider and bring to the notice of the Commissioner of Police and the Minister all matters affecting their welfare and efficiency, other than personal matters of discipline and promotion, there shall be established under the provisions of section 34 of the Police Act an organisation to be called the Police Association which shall act through a Central Board as provided in these Rules. CAP. 138. (2) The Police Association shall be entirely independent of and unassociated with any body or person outside the police service. (3) Subject as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for a member of the Police Department to become a member of any trade union or any association having for its objects or one of its objects, to control or influence the pay, pensions or conditions of service of the Police Department; and any member of the Police Department who contravenes this provision shall be disqualified from continuing to be a member of the Department; and, if any member of the Department continues to act as such after becoming so disqualified he shall forfeit all pension rights and be disqualified for being thereafter employed in the Police Department, provided that, where a man was a member of a trade union before becoming a constable he may, with the consent of 29 the Commissioner of Police, continue to be a member of that union during the time of his service in the Department. (4) If any question arises whether any body is a trade union of an association to which paragraph (3) applies the question shall be determined by the Magistrate.