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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2.References to transfers

    3. 3.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 GOVERNMENT

    1. 4.Ranks

    2. 5.Part-time appointments

    3. 6.Restrictions on the private life of members

    4. 7.Business interests of members of police forces: general

    5. 8.Business interests of members of police forces: notification and determination

    6. 9.Business interests of members of police forces: appeal

    7. 9A.Business interest precluding appointment to a police force

    8. 10.Qualifications for appointment to a police force

    9. 10A.Taking of fingerprints and samples prior to appointment to a police force

    10. 10B.Member rejoining a police force

    11. 11.Appointment of senior officers

    12. 11A.Removal of chief constable or commissioner or deputy commissioner of the metropolitan police

    13. 11B.Removal of other senior officers

    14. 12.Probationary service...

    15. 13.Discharge of probationer

    16. 13A.Secondments

    17. 14.Retirement

    18. 14A.Compensation lump sum on voluntary retirement

    19. 15.Contents of personal records

    20. 16.Transfer of personal records

    21. 17.Personal record of member leaving force

    22. 18.Fingerprints

    23. 19.Samples

    24. 19A.Testing for substance misuse

  4. PART 3 DUTY

    1. 20.Duty to carry out lawful orders

    2. 21.Limitations on duties to be assigned to members statutorily transferred

    3. 22.Duty

    4. 23.Meetings of the Police Federation treated as police duty

  5. PART 4 PAY

    1. 24.Pay

    2. 25.Overtime

    3. 26.Public holidays and rest days

    4. 27.Temporary salary and temporary promotion

    5. 28.Sick pay

    6. 28A.Entitlement to pay when on adjusted duties

    7. 29.Maternity pay

    8. 30.Fixing of pay day and calculation of monthly, weekly and daily pay

    9. 31.Deductions from pay of social security benefits and statutory sick pay

    10. 32.University scholars

  6. PART 5 LEAVE

    1. 33.Leave

  7. PART 6 ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES

    1. 34.Allowances

    2. 35.Expenses

    3. 36.Continuance of allowances when member ill

    4. 37.Allowances in respect of periods of suspension

    5. 38.Replacement allowance

    6. 39.Restriction on payments for private employment of police

  8. PART 7 RECKONING OF SERVICE

    1. 40.Reckoning of service in the Police Service of Northern Ireland

    2. 41.Reckoning of service in the British Transport Police Force

    3. 41A.Reckoning of service in the Royal Parks Constabulary

    4. 42.Reckoning by constables of service in certain constabularies

    5. 43.Reckoning of service in an airport constabulary

    6. 44.Reckoning by constables of overseas police service

    7. 44A.Reckoning of service in NCA

  9. PART 8 UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT

    1. 45.Issue of uniform and equipment

  10. PART 9 DETERMINATIONS

    1. 46.Determinations

  11. PART 10 REVOCATIONS AND SAVINGS

    1. 47.Revocations and savings

  12. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRIVATE LIFE OF MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCES

      1. 1.(1) A member of a police force shall at all...

      2. 2.A member of a police force shall not reside at...

      3. 3.(1) A member of a police force shall not, without...

      4. 4.A member of a police force shall not wilfully refuse...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      EFFECT OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION ON PAY AND ALLOWANCES

      1. 1.(1) Subject to paragraph 3, a member of a police...

      2. 2.Subject to paragraph 3, a member of a police force...

      3. 3.Where a member of a police force returns to duty...

      4. 4.Where a member of a police force is fined under...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      REPLACEMENT ALLOWANCE

      1. 1.(1) This paragraph has effect for defining expressions used in...

      2. 2.(1) A qualifying member who ceases to occupy a house...

      3. 3.(1) A qualifying member who immediately before 1st September 1994...

      4. 4.(1) A re-joining member who immediately before the relevant absence...

      5. 5.(1) A re-joining member who immediately before the relevant absence...

      6. 6.A qualifying member or a re-joining member who—

      7. 7.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in circumstances in which—

      8. 8.Modification of compensatory allowance

      9. 9.Reduced arrears of replacement allowance for re-joining members in receipt of related allowances

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      REVOCATIONS AND SAVINGS

      1. PART 1 REVOCATIONS

      2. PART 2 SAVINGS

        1. In relation to a person performing part-time service in the...

  14. Explanatory Note

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