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The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013

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Part-time appointments

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3.—(1) The chief constable may, after consultation with local representatives of the representative bodies, appoint constables to perform part-time service in any rank.

(2) In these Regulations a constable appointed to perform part-time service includes a constable appointed to share a job with another constable and the Scottish Ministers may determine what arrangements constitute sharing a job with another constable and what conditions, if any, apply in relation to such arrangements.

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

(4) A constable appointed to perform part-time service immediately after serving as a full-time constable may give notice in writing of that constable’s intention to be re-appointed as a full-time constable and is to be so appointed—

(a)within one month of the date the notice is received by the chief constable, where the chief constable has a suitable vacancy; or

(b)in all other cases, no later than 3 months after the day the notice was received.

(5) A constable serving as a full-time constable may not be appointed to perform part-time service without that constable’s consent.

(6) In this regulation “full-time constable” means a constable appointed otherwise than under this regulation.

(7) In its application to constables appointed under this regulation to perform part-time service, regulation 17 is modified as follows—

(a)in paragraph (1) for the words after “compensated in respect of time” to the end substitute “spent on duty in excess of such period as the Scottish Ministers may determine”; and

(b)omit paragraph (2).

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