PART 2GOVERNMENT

Part-time appointments3

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).