Reckoning of service in the Agency
33. After regulation 43 of the 2004 Regulations, insert―
“Reckoning of service in the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency
43A.—(1) Where a member of a police force joined or rejoined that force having left service as a police member of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (“the Agency”) for that purpose then, for the purposes of regulation 24, that member’s service in any rank in the Agency is to be treated as if it were service in the corresponding rank in the police force that member joined or rejoined:
Provided that in the case of a member of a police force of a rank higher than that of chief inspector this paragraph shall have effect subject to any contrary agreement.
(2) In this regulation―
(a)any reference to a rank corresponding to a rank in a police force is a reference to a rank in the Agency designated by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this regulation as the rank corresponding to the rank in question; and
(b)the reference to “service as a police member of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency” is to service following appointment as a police member under paragraph 7(2)(c) of schedule 2 to the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006.”.