PART 2GOVERNMENT

Part-time appointments5

1

F1... A chief officer may, after consultation with local representatives of the representative bodies, appoint persons to perform part-time service in any rank.

2

In these Regulations a person appointed to perform part-time service includes a person appointed to share a job with another person.

3

A person appointed to perform part-time service may not be appointed to serve as a full-time member without his consent.

4

A person appointed to perform part-time service immediately after serving as a full-time member may give notice in writing of his intention to be re-appointed as a full-time member and shall be so appointed—

a

within F52 months of the date the notice is received by the F3local policing body, where the F4body has a suitable vacancy, or

b

except where sub-paragraph (a) applies, when F64 months have elapsed since the day the notice was received, or from an earlier date if reasonably practicable.

5

A person serving as a full-time member of a police force may not be appointed to perform part-time service without his consent.

6

In this regulation “full-time member” means a member appointed otherwise than under this regulation.

7

In relation to persons appointed under this regulation to perform part-time service:

a

regulation 12 has effect as if the words “, other than such a member who transferred to the force from another police force having completed the required period of probation therein,” were omitted; and

b

regulation 25 has effect as if—

i

in paragraph (1) for all the words after “compensated in respect of time” there were substituted “spent on duty in excess of such period as the Secretary of State may determine”; and

ii

paragraph (2) were omitted.

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