5.—(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 [F22 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 [F54 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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Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 5(1) revoked (1.4.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/594), art. 1, Sch. para. 34(2)(f)
F2Words in reg. 5(4)(a) substituted (22.11.2012) by The Police (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2712), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)
F3Words in reg. 5(4)(a) substituted (16.1.2012 in relation to the Metropolitan police district; 22.11.2012 in relation to the other police areas in E.W.) by The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/3026), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(c)
F4Word in reg. 5(4)(a) substituted (16.1.2012 in relation to the Metropolitan police district; 22.11.2012 in relation to the other police areas in E.W.) by The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/3026), regs. 1(1), 5(2)(a)
F5Words in reg. 5(4)(b) substituted (22.11.2012) by The Police (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2712), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)