Police Regulations 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1971/156 |
| Year | 1971 |
1971 No. 156
POLICE
The Police Regulations 197128thJanuary 1971
10thFebruary 1971
15thFebruary 1971
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
CITATION, OPERATION, REVOCATIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1. Citation and operation.
2. Revocations and amendments.
3. References to transfers.
4. References to provisions of these Regulations, to other instruments and to enactments.
5. Application of Interpretation Act 1889.
6. Meanings assigned to certain expressions.
PART II
GOVERNMENT
ORGANISATION
7. Authorised establishment.
8. Ranks.
9. Beats, sections, sub-divisions and divisions.
10. Restrictions on the private life of members.
11. Business interests incompatible with membership of a police force.
APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT
12. Business interests precluding appointment to a police force.
13. Qualifications for appointment to a police force.
14. Appointment of chief constable.
15. Probationary service in the rank of constable.
16. Discharge of probationer.
17. Retirement.
PERSONAL RECORDS
18. Contents of personal records.
19. Transfer of personal records.
20. Personal record of member leaving force.
21. Fingerprints.
PART III
DUTY, OVERTIME AND LEAVE
22. Duty to carry out lawful orders.
23. Limitations on duties to be assigned to members statutorily transferred.
24. Normal daily period of duty.
25. Overtime.
26. Public holidays and rest days for lower ranks.
27. Public holidays and monthly leave days for higher ranks.
28. Annual leave.
29. Sick leave.
30. Maternity leave.
31. University scholars.
PART IV
PAY
32. Rate of pay.
33. Reckoning of previous service.
34. Reckoning of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
35. Reckoning by constables of auxiliary service.
36. Reckoning by constables of overseas police service.
37. Deductions from pay of sickness or injury benefits.
38. Calculation of monthly, weekly and daily pay.
39. Pay day.
PART V
ALLOWANCES AND OTHER EMOLUMENTS
40. Restriction on payment of allowances.
41. Restriction on payments for private employment of police.
42. Rent allowance.
43. Supplementary rent allowance.
44. Application of Regulations 42 and 43 to members of regional crime squads and motorway patrol groups.
45. Compensatory grant.
46. Discharge of tax liability in respect of police house or quarters.
47. Removal allowance.
48. Uniform allowance.
49. Boot allowance.
50. Plain clothes allowances.
51. Detective duty and detective expenses allowances.
52. Supplementary detective allowances.
53. Subsistence, refreshment and lodging allowances.
54. Advances to cover expenses when away on duty.
55. Motor vehicle allowances.
56. Bicycle allowance.
57. Typewriter allowance.
58. Allowance in respect of medical charges.
59. Special area undermanning allowance.
60. Extra duty allowance.
61. Temporary duty allowance.
62. Promotion examination allowances.
63. Allowance for recurring escort duty, etc.
64. Continuance of allowances when member ill.
65. University scholars.
PART VI
HOUSING, UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT
66. Provision of house or quarters.
67. Issue of uniform and equipment.
68. Ownership of uniform and equipment.
69. Replacement of uniform and equipment.
70. Re-issue of uniform and equipment.
71. Boots.
PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
72. Meetings of Police Federation treated as police duty.
73. Payments by police authority for metropolitan police district.
74. Regulations not to apply to auxiliary policemen.
75. Transitional provisions.
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1—Revocations and amendments.
Part I—Regulations revoked with savings.
Part II—Transitory amendments.
Schedule 2—Restrictions on the private life of members of police forces.
Schedule 3—Annual leave.
Schedule 4—University scholars.
Schedule 5—Pay.
Part I—Scales of pay for men.
Part II—Scales of pay for women.
Part III—Transitory provisions relating to the pay of certain chief superintendents.
Schedule 6—Detective duty and supplementary detective allowances.
Schedule 7—Subsistence, refreshment and lodging allowances.
Schedule 8—Motor vehicle allowances in respect of motor cars.
Schedule 9—Bicycle allowance.
Schedule 10—Typewriter allowance.
Schedule 11—Issue of uniform and equipment.
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) and the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales in accordance with section 46(3) of the said Act of 1964 as amended by section 4(6) of the said Act of 1969, I hereby make the following Regulations:—
PART I
CITATION, OPERATION, REVOCATIONS AND INTERPRETATION
Citation and operation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 15th February 1971.
Revocations and amendments
2.—(1) The Regulations set out in Part I of Schedule 1 are hereby revoked save for the purposes of regulating pay and allowances in respect of a period before the coming into operation of these Regulations; and for those purposes they shall have effect subject to the provisions of Part II of Schedule 1.
(2) Section 38 of the Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply as if these Regulations were an Act of Parliament and as if any Regulations revoked by these Regulations were Acts of Parliament repealed by an Act of Parliament.
References to transfers
3.—(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—
(i) in the case of the chief officer of police, with the consent of the police authority,
(ii) in any other case, with 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) 1964 c. 48.
(b) 1969 c. 63.
(c) 1889 c. 63.
(a) by or under the Local Government Act 1933(a), the Police Act 1946(b), the Local Government Act 1958(c), the London Government Act 1963(d) or the Police Act 1964, or
(b) in the case of a person who was a member of the River Tyne police force, under the Harbours Act 1964(e).
(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, to other instruments and to enactments
4.—(1) 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.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to any enactment or instrument shall be construed as including a reference to that enactment or instrument as amended, extended or applied by any other enactment or instrument.
Application of Interpretation Act 1889
5. The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Meanings assigned to certain expressions
6.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
"auxiliary policeman" means a member of the first class of the police reserve, a member of the Police War Reserve, of a member of the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps;
"central police officer" has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
"Discipline Regulations" means the regulations relating to discipline from time to time in force under section 33 of the Police Act 1964;
"inspector" includes chief inspector;
"overseas policeman" has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
"penny" means a new penny;
"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 1948(f);
(a) 1933 c. 51.
(b) 1946 c. 46.
(c) 1958 c. 55.
(d) 1963 c. 33.
(e) 1964 c. 40.
(f) 1948 c. 24.
"Promotion Regulations" means the regulations relating to qualification and selection for promotion from time to time in force under section 4 of the Police Act 1919(a) or section 33 of the Police Act 1964;
"public holiday" means Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday;
"reversionary member of a home police force" has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
"sergeant" includes station sergeant and first class and second class sergeant (C.I.D.);
"superintendent" includes chief superintendent, superintendent (class I) and superintendent (class II);
"university scholar" and, in relation to such a scholar, "course" and "study" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a police force shall include a reference to a police force maintained under the Police (Scotland)...
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