48Allowances payable to special constablesS
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In section 3 of the 1967 Act (which defines special constables as constables to whom only allowances are payable), after subsection (2) there is inserted—
“(3)It is declared, for the purposes of subsection (2) above, that the allowances payable to special constables include any periodic payments of the description set out in subsection (4) below.
(4)Payments are of that description if they acknowledge the giving by special constables of their services as such for not less than such aggregate length of time within the period to which each payment relates as the Scottish Ministers may, by or under regulations made under section 26 of this Act, determine.”.