The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1753

POLICE

The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Made

5th October 1987

Laid before Parliament

12th October 1987

Coming into force

16th November 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 33 of the Police Act 1964(1), and after taking into account the recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and furnishing the said Board with a draft of the Regulations in accordance with section 2(1) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980(2), I hereby make the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Amendment) Regulations 1987.

2.  These Regulations shall come into force on 16th November 1987 and shall have effect for the purposes of regulation 3(a), as from 1st July 1986, for the purposes of regulation 3(b), as from 1st February 1987, for the purposes of regulation 4(b) to (f), as from 15th June 1987, and for the purposes of regulation 4(h) and (j), as from 1st September 1987.

3.  The Police Regulations 1979(3) (as they continue to have effect in relation to the period prior to their revocation by the Police Regulations 1987(4)) shall be deemed to have been amended as follows —

(a) in regulation 36 (London weighting) and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 (university scholars) for the words “£885” there shall be deemed to have been substituted the words “£945”;

(b) in regulation 48(3) (a) and (b) (supplementary rent allowance) for the words “£8.33” there shall be deemed to have been substituted the words “£13.92”.

4.  The Police Regulations 1987(4) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 5(1) (meanings assigned to certain expressions), in the definition of the expression “public holiday”, after the words “Christmas Day” there shall be inserted the words “the 26th December (if it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday), the 1st January (if it so falls),”;

(b) in regulation 39 (London weighting) and in paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 (university scholars) for the words “£885” there shall be substituted the words “£945”;

(c) in regulation 41(2)(a) (reckoning by constables of service in certain constabularies) after the words Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987(5)“ there shall be inserted the words or before the coming into force of that Act, comprising constables appointed under Section 3 of the Special Constables Act 1923(6) on the nomination of the Defence Council or, before 1st April 1964, of the Admiralty, Army Council or Air Council”;

(d) in regulation 43 (reckoning by constables of overseas police service) after paragraph (4) there shall be added the following provision—

“(5) A certificate given by or on behalf of—

(a) the Secretary for Technical Co-operation before 27th November 1964, or

(b) the Minister of Overseas Development on or after that date but before 12th November 1970,

shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph (2) as if it had been given by or on behalf of the Secretary of State.”:

(e) in regulation 44(1)(a) (deductions from pay of social security benefits and statutory sick pay) for the words “1982” there shall be substituted the word “1986”;

(f) in regulation 50(3)(a) and (b) (supplementary rent allowance) for the words “£8.33” there shall be substituted the words “£13.92”;

(g) in regulation 53(1)(d) (removal allowance) for the word “13” in the second place where it occurs there shall be substituted the word “39”;

(h) in Schedule 5 for tables A and B there shall be substituted respectively the tables set out in the Appendix to these Regulations;

(j) in paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 (dog handler’s allowance) for the words “£567” in sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “£612”, and for the words “£771” in sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “£831”.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

5th October 1987

APPENDIX TABLES SUBSTITUTED FOR TABLES IN SCHEDULES TO THE POLICE REGULATIONS 1987 WITH EFFECT FROM 1ST SEPTEMBER 1987

Table A

		Annual Pay
Rank	Service in Rank	London	Provinces
		£	£
Chief Superintendent	Less than 1 year	26,262	26,262
	After 1 year	26,637	26,637
	After 2 years	27,234	27,234
	After 3 years	27,885	27,885
Superintendent	Less than 1 year	24,225	23,622
	After 1 year	24,699	24,225
	After 2 years	25,170	24,825
	After 3 years	25,650	25,650
Chief Inspector	Less than 1 year	18,195	17,364
	After 1 year	18,645	17,850
	After 2 years	19,122	18,336
	After 3 years	19,635	18,825
	After 4 years	20,142	19,317
Inspector	Less than 1 year	16,116	15,294
	After 1 year	16,566	15,771
	After 2 years	17,151	16,392
	After 3 years	17,679	16,875
	After 4 years	18,195	17,364
Sergeant	Less than 1 year	13,332	13,332
	After 1 year	13,938	13,938
	After 2 years	14,427	14,427
	After 3 years	14,907	14,907
	After 4 years	15,294	15,294

Table B

ANNUAL PAY OF CONSTABLES

Reckonable service	Annual Pay
	£
Before completing 1 year of service ... ... ... ...	8,352
After 1 year of service ... ... ... ...	8,931
After 2 years of service ... ... ... ...	10,512
After 3 years of service ... ... ... ...	10,761
After 4 years of service ... ... ... ...	11,118
After 5 years of service ... ... ... ...	11,499
After 6 years of service ... ... ... ...	11,868
After 7 years of service ... ... ... ...	12,234
After 8 years of service ... ... ... ...	12,597
After 12 years of service ... ... ... ...	13,332
After 15 years of service ... ... ... ...	13,938

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These amending Regulations have effect, as provided by regulation 2, for the purposes of regulation 3(a), as from 1st July 1986, for the purposes of regulation 3(b), as from 1st February 1987, for the purposes of regulation 4(b) to (f), as from 15th June 1987, for the purposes of regulation 4(h) and (j) as from 1st September 1987 (retrospection is authorised by Section 33(4) of the Police Act 1964) and, for all other purposes, as from 16th November 1987.

Under regulation 3 the Police Regulations 1979 have deemed to have been amended for the purpose of increasing London weighting and the supplementary pay of university scholars in the City and the metropolitan police district (regulation 3(a)) and the Supplementary rent allowance (regulation 3(b)).

Regulation 4 amends the Police Regulations 1987.

Regulation 4(a) designates as public holidays for the purposes of the 1987 Regulations 26th December or 1st January where either of those dates falls on a Saturday or a Sunday.

Regulation 4(b) increases London weighting and the supplementary pay of university scholars in the City and the metropolitan police district.

Regulation 4(c) to (e) make good certain minor defects and omissions in the consolidation of the 1987 Regulations.

Regulation 4(f) increases the supplementary rent allowance.

Regulation 4(g) increases the period in respect of which additional removal expenses may be paid at the discretion of the police authority.

Regulation 4(h) increases pay.

Regulation 4(j) increases the dog handler’s allowance.

(1)

1964 c. 48

(2)

1980 c. 10

(3)

S.I. 1979/1470; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/405, 803, 1981/41, 1982/271, 1983/160, 812, 1985/885, 1986/784

(4)

S.I. 1987/851

(5)

1987 c. 4

(6)

1923 c. 11