The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2484

POLICE

The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

31st October 1991

Laid before Parliament

7th November 1991

Coming into force

1st December 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 33 of the Police Act 1964(1), and after taking into consideration the representations made by the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and the recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, and furnishing each of the said Boards with a draft of the Regulations in accordance with section 46(3) of that Act(2) and section 2(1) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980(3), I hereby make the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Amendment) Regulations 1991.

2.  These Regulations shall come into force on 1st December 1991 and shall have effect for the purposes of regulation 3(5) as from 1st July 1990 and for the purposes of regulation 3(7) and (8) as from 1st September 1991.

3.—(1) The Police Regulations 1987(4) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 11(2) (business interests incompatible with membership of a police force) there shall be inserted after the word “and” the words “, within 28 days of the receipt of that notice,”.

(3) There shall be substituted for regulation 11(4) the following paragraph–

“(4) Upon receipt of such notice, the police authority shall forthwith require the chief officer of police to submit to them, within the next following 10 days, a notice setting out the reasons for his decision and copies of any documents on which he relies in support of that decision; and the police authority shall send to the member concerned copies of such notice and documents and shall afford him a reasonable opportunity, being in no case less than 14 days, to comment thereon.”

(4) In regulation 11(5) there shall be inserted after the word “shall” in the first place where it occurs the words “, within 28 days of receiving his comments on the notice and any other documents submitted by the chief officer of police under paragraph (4), or of the expiration of the period afforded for making comments if none have by then been received.”.

(5) In regulation 39 (London weighting) and in paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 (university scholars' supplementary pay) for the words “£1,170” there shall be substituted the words “£1,269”.

(6) There shall be substituted for regulation 64 the following regulation–

“Allowance in respect of medical charges

64.— (1) A member of a police force, other than one such as is mentioned in paragraph (2), shall be reimbursed any charges incurred in his case under section 77, 78 or 79 of the National Health Service Act 1977(5) (which sections relate to charges for certain drugs, medicines and appliances and for dental treatment).

(2) A member of a police force who first became a constable on or after 1991, shall be reimbursed any such charges if they are incurred by reason of an injury received without the default of the member concerned in the execution of his duty as a constable, but not otherwise.

(3) For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, the terms “injury” and “injury received in the execution of duty” have the same meanings as they have in the Police Pensions Regulations(6).”

(7) In Schedule 5 (scales of pay) for tables A and B there shall be substituted respectively the tables set out in the Appendix to these Regulations.

(8) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 (dog handler’s allowance) for the words “£792” in sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “£858” and for the words “£1,083” in sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “£1,176”.

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

31st October 1991

APPENDIX

Table A

	Annual Pay
Rank	Service in Rank	London	Provinces
		£	£
Chief Superintendent	Less than 1 year	37,071	37,071
	After 1 year	37,599	37,599
	After 2 years	38,442	38,442
	After 3 years	39,360	39,360
Superintendent	Less than 1 year	34,191	33,342
	After 1 year	34,863	34,191
	After 2 years	35,529	35,037
	After 3 years	36,204	36,204
Chief Inspector	Less than 1 year	25,686	24,510
	After 1 year	26,316	25,197
	After 2 years	26,994	25,881
	After 3 years	27,714	26,571
	After 4 years	28,431	27,264
Inspector	Less than 1 year	22,749	21,588
	After 1 year	23,382	22,263
	After 2 years	24,210	23,133
	After 3 years	24,954	23,820
	After 4 years	25,686	24,510
Sergeant	Less than 1 year	18,819	18,819
	After 1 year	19,674	19,674
	After 2 years	20,367	20,367
	After 3 years	21,039	21,039
	After 4 years	21,588	21,588

TABLE B

Reckonable Service	Annual Pay
	£
Before completing 1 year of service	11,790
After 1 year of service	12,606
After 2 years of service	14,841
After 3 years of service	15,192
After 4 years of service	15,693
After 5 years of service	16,233
After 6 years of service	16,749
After 7 years of service	17,268
After 8 years of service	17,778
After 12 years of service	18,819
After 15 years of service	19,674

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Police Regulations 1987. Regulation 3(2), (3) and (4) makes additional provision in relation to appeals against decisions concerning the compatibility of business interests with membership of a police force.

Regulation 3(6) preserves the entitlement of existing police officers to reimbursement of all National Health Service charges for certain drugs, medicines and appliances and for dental treatment, and provides for the reimbursement of such charges to officers who first join the police after these Regulations come into force only where the charges relate to an injury received or disease contracted on account of th ffieir constabulary duty.

Regulation 3(5) increases London weighting and the supplementary pay of university scholars in the City and the metropolitan police district with effect from 1st July 1990; regulation 3(7) increases pay and regulation 3(8) increases the dog handler’s allowance, both with effect from 1st September 1991 (retrospection is authorised by section 33(4) of the Police Act 1964).

(1)

1964 c. 48.

(2)

Section 46(3), as amended by section 4(6) of the Police Act 1969 (c. 63), was amended by section 2(4) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10).

(3)

1980 c. 10.

(4)

S.I. 1987/851; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/1573, 2619.

(5)

1977 c. 49; sections 78 and 79 were amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 11, Schedule 2, paragraph 5 and Schedule 3.

(6)

S.I. 1987/257.