Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1944

4 Alteration of certain time limits in principal Act

(1) A reference to the period of the present emergency and one year after the end thereof, or, if the Secretary of State on the application of the appropriate authority so directs in the case of any person, such longer period as may be specified in the direction, shall be substituted for any reference to the period of the present emergency in the following provisions of the principal Act, namely—

(a) subsection (2) of section one (which authorises the supplementation of the pay of persons to whom that section applies while serving in His Majesty's forces during the period of the present emergency) ;

(b) subsection (1) of section two (which extends approved service so as to include service in His Majesty's forces during the period of the present emergency) ;

(c) section five (which defines the amount of civil pay which a constable or fireman is to be deemed to have received while serving in His Majesty's forces during the period of the present emergency) ;

(d) subsections (1) and (2) of section six (which substitute certain provisions of the Act for previous enactments in relation to service as a member of a reserve during the period of the present emergency);

and accordingly in subsection (2) of the said section two the words from " or within such further time " to the end of the subsection are hereby repealed.

(2) On the application of the appropriate authority, the Secretary of State may, in the case of any person to whom section one of the principal Act applies, direct that the period for which payments may be made to or in respect of him under subsection (3) of that section after he has ceased to serve in His Majesty's forces shall be extended to such longer period as may be specified in the direction.

(3) In section eight of the principal Act (which provides that a constable on probation joining His Majesty's forces, and subsequently resuming service as a constable during the period of the present emergency or within two months from the end of that period, shall serve on probation for his unexpired period of probation) the words " during that period or within two months from the end of that period " are hereby repealed.

(4) The period within which a person may, under section nine of the principal Act, resume service as a constable without making a declaration required to be made on accepting office as a constable shall be any period which is to be treated as a period of approved service in his case by virtue of subsection (1) of section two of that Act and two months from the end thereof, instead of the period of the present emergency and two months from the end thereof.