The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Part-time appointments

5.—(1) The Director General may, after consultation with the representative bodies, authorise police members to perform part-time service in any rank.

(2) In these Regulations “part-time service” includes any arrangement by which a police member shares a job with another police member.

(3) A police member appointed to perform part-time service may not be required to serve as a full-time police member without that member’s consent.

(4) A police member appointed to perform part-time service immediately after serving as a full-time member may apply in writing to the Authority to be re-appointed as a full-time member and will be so appointed—

(a) where the Authority has a suitable vacancy, within 1 month from the date of receipt by the Authority of the application; or

(b) in any other case, no later than 3 months from the date of receipt by the Authority of the application.

(5) A police member appointed to perform full-time service may not be required to perform part-time service without that member’s consent.

(6) In this regulation, “full-time service” means any work pattern other than a work pattern authorised under this regulation.

(7) In relation to police members appointed under this regulation to perform part-time service regulation 18 has effect as if―

(a) for paragraph (3) there is substituted―

“(3) In these regulations, “overtime” means time spent on duty in excess of such period as the Scottish Ministers may determine.”; and

(b) paragraph (4) is omitted.