Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2002

Rate of pay

10.—(1) In regulation 36 of the principal regulations (rate of pay) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

“(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Part, the pay of the members shall be determined by the Secretary of State.

(1A) Before making any determination under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall take into consideration any recommendation made by the Police Negotiating Board and shall supply the Board with a draft of the determination; and subsection (2) of section 62 of the Police Act 1996 shall apply in relation to a recommendation to be made for the purposes of this paragraph as it applies in relation to a recommendation to be made for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) of that section.

(1B) A determination under paragraph (1) may be made with retrospective effect to any date specified in the determination, but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as authorising the pay payable to any person to be reduced retrospectively.”

(2) In regulation 36(2) of the principal regulations (service in corresponding rank held on 31st May 1970) for “In Schedule 6, any reference to service in a rank” there shall be substituted “For the purposes of this regulation, in reckoning a member’s service in any rank, that service”.

(3) The following provisions of the principal regulations shall be omitted—

(a) regulation 1(2)(f);

(b) regulation 36(4)(e);

(c) in regulation 36(6), the words “and Schedule 6”;

(d) Schedule 6.