These Regulations amend the Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) to allow for the extension to constables of new entitlements to shared parental leave conferred on other workers by the Children and Families Act 2014.

Regulations 22 and 25(7) of the 2013 Regulations are amended to require the Scottish Ministers to make determinations about constables’ entitlement to shared parental leave and to pay during any such period of leave.

Regulation 28 of the 2013 Regulations is updated to ensure that an allowance paid to a constable in respect of an expense which ceases during a period of absence must continue to be paid for a period of up to a month if that constable goes on shared parental leave After that period, the chief constable may suspend payment of that allowance while the constable remains on shared parental leave.

Regulation 31(2)(g) of the 2013 Regulations is amended so that the Scottish Ministers are required to determine how much of any period of shared parental leave is to be treated as reckonable service for the purposes of calculating that constable’s pay.