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The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation and application

  3. PART 2 GOVERNMENT

    1. 3.Part-time appointments

    2. 4.Restrictions on the private life of constables

    3. 5.Business interests

    4. 6.Qualifications for appointment to the Police Service

    5. 7.Appointment of senior officers

    6. 8.Probationary service in the rank of constable

    7. 9.Discharge of probationer

    8. 10.Retirement

    9. 11.Personal records

    10. 12.Record of constable leaving the Police Service

    11. 13.Fingerprints and samples

  4. PART 3 DUTY

    1. 14.Duty

    2. 15.Meetings of Police Federation for Scotland treated as police duty

  5. PART 4 PAY

    1. 16.Pay

    2. 17.Overtime

    3. 18.Public holidays and rest days

    4. 19.Temporary salary

    5. 20.Temporary promotion

    6. 21.Sick pay

    7. 22.Parental pay

    8. 23.Fixing of pay day and calculation of monthly, weekly and daily pay

    9. 24.Deductions from pay of social security benefits and statutory sick pay

  6. PART 5 LEAVE

    1. 25.Leave

  7. PART 6 ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES

    1. 26.Allowances

    2. 27.Expenses

    3. 28.Continuance of allowances – absence from duty

    4. 29.Allowances in respect of periods of suspension

    5. 30.Restriction on payments for private employment of police

  8. PART 7 RECKONING OF SERVICE

    1. 31.Reckoning of service

    2. 32.Reckoning by constables of overseas police service

  9. PART 8 UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT

    1. 33.Issue of uniform and equipment

  10. PART 9 DETERMINATIONS

    1. 34.Determinations

  11. PART 10 TRANSITIONAL AND SAVING PROVISIONS AND REVOCATIONS

    1. 35.Transitional and saving provisions and revocations

  12. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRIVATE LIFE OF CONSTABLES

      1. 1.A constable must at all times abstain from any activity...

      2. 2.A constable must not, unless that constable has previously given...

      3. 3.A constable must not wilfully refuse or neglect to discharge...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      EFFECT OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION ON PAY AND ALLOWANCES

      1. 1.(1) Subject to paragraph 3, a constable suspended under the...

      2. 2.Subject to paragraph 3, a constable suspended under the Conduct...

      3. 3.Where a constable returns to duty when the period of...

      4. 4.Where a constable of the Police Service is fined under...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      TRANSITIONAL AND SAVING PROVISIONS

      1. 1.Interpretation

      2. 2.Transitional: part-time service

      3. 3.Transitional: business interests

      4. 4.Transitional: transferred senior officers

      5. 5.Transitional: probationary service in the rank of constable

      6. 6.Transitional: discharge of probationer

      7. 7.Transitional: retirement

      8. 8.Transitional: fingerprints and samples

      9. 9.Transitional: reckoning of service

      10. 10.Transitional: overtime

      11. 11.Transitional: temporary salary

      12. 12.Transitional: temporary promotion

      13. 13.Transitional: sick pay

      14. 14.Transitional: maternity, maternity support leave, adoption and adoption support leave pay

      15. 15.Saving: university scholars

      16. 16.Transitional: leave

      17. 17.Transitional: uniform and equipment

      18. 18.Saving: replacement allowance

      19. 19.(1) For the purpose of paragraph 18, Schedule 3 to...

      20. 20.Revocations

  13. Explanatory Note

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