Police (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1971/133 |
| Year | 1971 |
1971 No. 133
POLICE
The Police (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 197126thJanuary 1971
3rdFebruary 1971
15thFebruary 1971
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 33 of the Police Act 1964(a), and after consulting the Police Council for the United Kingdom in accordance with section 4(4) of the Police Act 1969(b), I hereby make the following Regulations:—
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 1971.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 15th February 1971 and shall have effect as from that date except that in the case of a member of a police force who is then suspended under Regulation 17 of the principal Regulations they shall have effect as from the date of his suspension.
2.—(1) In these Regulations any reference to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Police (Discipline) Regulations 1965(c), as amended (d).
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(e) shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. For Regulation 17(2), (3) and (4) of the principal Regulations (pay and allowances in respect of a period of suspension) there shall be substituted the following provisions:—
"(2) Subject to paragraph (4), a member of a police force suspended under this Regulation shall not, by virtue of the Police Regulations, be entitled to any allowance, other than a rent allowance, supplementary rent allowance, compensatory grant or special area undermanning allowance, in respect of the period of suspension.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a member of a police force suspended under this Regulation who—
(a) is detained in pursuance of a sentence of a court in a prison or other institution to which the Prison Act 1952(f) applies, or is in custody (whether in prison or elsewhere) between conviction by a court and sentence, or
(a) 1964 c. 48.
(b) 1969 c. 63.
(c) S.I. 1965/543 (1965 I, p. 1678).
(d) S.I. 1967/185 (1967 I, p. 333).
(e) 1889 c. 63.
(f) 1952 c. 52.
(b) has absented himself from duty and whose whereabouts are unknown to the chief constable concerned,
shall not, by virtue of the Police Regulations, be entitled to pay in respect of his period in detention or custody or, as the case may be, in respect of the period during which his whereabouts are unknown to the chief constable.
(4) Where a member of a police force returns to duty when the period of suspension comes to an end and—
(a) it has been...
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