The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013

Meetings of Police Federation for Scotland treated as police duty

15.—(1) The attendance of a constable at any of the following meetings of the Police Federation for Scotland is to be treated as an occasion of police duty—

(a) an ordinary meeting of an area committee;

(b) an ordinary meeting of the joint central committee;

(c) the annual meeting of the joint central committee with the joint central committee of the Police Federation for England and Wales and the central committee of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland; or

(d) the biennial meeting of the joint central conference.

(2) Subject to the approval of the chief constable, the attendance of a constable at an additional meeting of an area committee of the Police Federation for Scotland or at a meeting of an area sub-committee is to be treated as an occasion of police duty.

(3) Subject to the approval of the Scottish Ministers, the attendance of a constable of the Police Service at a meeting of the Police Federation for Scotland, other than such a meeting as is mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2), is to be treated as an occasion of police duty.

(4) In this regulation a reference to a particular committee of the Police Federation for Scotland is a reference to that committee mentioned in the Police Federation (Scotland) Regulations 2013(1).

(1)

S.S.I 2013/86.