Pay during maternity leave
20.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a female police trainee who satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2) is entitled to be paid as respects the first three months of any period or periods of maternity leave in any one maternity period (as defined by regulation 14) taken in accordance with regulation 14 but is not entitled to be paid thereafter.
(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that—
(a)at the beginning of the week in which the expected date of birth (as defined in regulation 14(1)) occurs, the police trainee will have completed relevant service of a total period of not less than sixty-three weeks; and
(b)on the date (“the relevant date”) fifteen weeks before the expected date of birth (as so defined) she either—
(i)remains pregnant, or
(ii)has given birth prematurely to a baby who is alive on the relevant date.
(3) In this regulation—
“relevant service” means continuous service, comprising—
(a)service as a police trainee;
(b)service such as is mentioned in regulation 17(1); or
(c)service in any rank in the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve, being service on a full-time basis, or part-time service which a person was appointed to perform under regulation 4A of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Full-Time) (Appointment and Conditions of Service) Regulations 1996(1);
“week” means a period of seven days beginning with Sunday.
S.R. 1996 No. 564. Regulation 4A was inserted by S.R. 2001 No. 80