Public holidays and rest days
25.—(1) The Secretary of State shall determine the circumstances and manner in which a member shall be granted leave or otherwise compensated in respect of time spent on duty on—
(a)public holidays, or
(b)rostered rest days;
and in this regulation “rostered rest day”, in relation to a member who is required to do duty on that day, means a day which according to the duty roster was, immediately before he was so required to do duty, to have been a rest day for the member.
(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) the Secretary of State may confer on the Chief Constable discretion—
(a)to fix the time at which, or the day on which, a period commences for the purposes of the determination;
(b)to fix the period within which time off in compensation for time spent on duty as mentioned in that paragraph is to be granted;
(c)to fix a limit on the time occupied by a member in travelling to and from his place of duty which is to be included in a period of duty for the purposes of the determination.