The Police Regulations 1995

PART I COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 8th March 1995, but—

(a) the increase (from £1,290 to £1,315) in the maximum amount authorised by regulation 52(8) (removal allowance) shall have effect from 1st April 1994, and

(b) the increase (from £1,344 to £1,365) in the amount authorised by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 5 (university scholars) shall have effect from 1st July 1993.

References to transfers

2.—(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a member of a police force voluntarily transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to such a member leaving a force for the purpose of joining another force and joining that other force, where—

(a) he left the force first mentioned in this regulation on or after 1st January 1963 for the purposes aforesaid with, in the case of the chief officer of police, the consent of the police authority;

(b) he left the force first mentioned in this regulation before 1st January 1963 for the purposes aforesaid with the written consent of the chief officer of police.

(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a member of a police force being statutorily transferred from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to such a member being transferred—

(a) by or under the Local Government Act 1933(1), the Police Act 1946(2), the Local Government Act 1958(3), the London Government Act 1963(4), the Police Act 1964 (including that Act as amended by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994(5)), the Local Government Act 1972(6)or the Local Government Act 1992(7);

(b) in the case of a person who was a member of the River Tyne police force, under the Harbours Act 1964(8)).

(3) Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a member of a police force transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to his either voluntarily so transferring or being statutorily so transferred.

References to provisions of these Regulations

3.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a regulation shall be construed as a reference to a regulation contained in these Regulations, a reference to a Schedule shall be construed as a reference to a Schedule to these Regulations, a reference to a paragraph shall be construed as a reference to a paragraph in the same regulation or, as the case may be, the same Part of the same Schedule and a reference to a sub-paragraph shall be construed as a reference to a sub-paragraph contained in the same paragraph.

Meanings assigned to certain expressions, etc.

4.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “1964 Act”means the Police Act 1964;

• “central police officer”has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations; “chief officer”means chief officer of police;

• “Discipline Regulations”means the regulations relating to discipline from time to time in force under section 33 of the Police Act 1964 and section 94(5), 101 and 102 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(9);

• “joint branch board”means the joint branch board mentioned in regulation 7(3) of the Police Federation Regulations 1969(10);

• “overseas policeman”has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;

• “pensionable service”has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;

• “Police Pensions Regulations”means the regulations from time to time in force under the Police Pensions Act 1976(11);

• “Promotion Regulations”means the regulations relating to qualification and selection for promotion from time to time in force under section 33 of the Police Act 1964;

• “public holiday”means Christmas Day, the 26th December (if it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday), the 1st January (if it so falls), Good Friday or a bank holiday;

• “the representative bodies”means the Police Federation for England and Wales and all bodies for the time being recognised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 47 of the Police Act 1964;

• “reversionary member of a home police force”has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;

• “rostered rest day”has the meaning assigned thereto by regulation 27(1);

• “university scholar”and, in relation to such a scholar, “course”and “study”have the meanings respectively assigned to them in paragraph 1 of Schedule 5.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a police force shall include a reference to the Royal Ulster Constabulary and a police force maintained under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(12), so however that nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as relating to the government, administration or conditions of service of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or such a force.

(3) In these Regulations a reference to an aerodrome constabulary is a reference to such a constabulary within the meaning of the Aviation Security Act 1982(13); and a reference to a rank in such a constabulary corresponding to a rank in a police force is a reference to a rank in that constabulary designated for the purposes hereof by the Secretary of State as the rank corresponding to the rank in question.

(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as authorising pay or allowances payable to any person to be reduced retrospectively.

Modification of Regulations in relation to metropolitan police force

5.—(1) All payments required to be made under these Regulations by the Secretary of State as police authority for the metropolitan police district shall be paid out of the metropolitan police fund.

(2) Any reference to a police authority in a provision of these Regulations concerned with property shall in relation to the metropolitan police force be construed as including a reference to the Receiver for the metropolitan police district.

(1)

1933 c. 51.

(2)

1946 c. 46.

(3)

1958 c. 55.

(4)

1963 c. 33.

(5)

1994 c. 29; the relevent amendment is made by section 14 of the 1994 Act.

(6)

1972 c. 70.

(7)

1992 c. 19.

(8)

1964 c. 40.

(9)

1984 c. 60.

(10)

S.I. 1969/1787, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(11)

1976 c. 35.

(12)

1967 c. 77.

(13)

1982 c. 36.