Police Regulations 1979
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1979/1470 |
| Year | 1979 |
1979 No. 1470
POLICE
The Police Regulations 197916thNovember 1979
29thNovember 1979
1stJanuary 1980
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
GENERAL
1. Citation and operation.
2. Revocations and transitional provisions.
3. References to transfers.
4. References to provisions of these Regulations.
5. Meanings assigned to certain expressions, etc.
6. Modification of Regulations in relation to metropolitan police force.
7. Regulations not to apply to auxiliary policemen.
PART II
GOVERNMENT
ORGANISATION
8. Authorised establishment.
9. Ranks.
10. Beats, sections, sub-divisions and divisions.
11. Restrictions on the private life of members.
12. Business interests incompatible with membership of a police force.
APPOINTMENT, PROBATION AND RETIREMENT
13. Business interests precluding appointment to a police force.
14. Qualifications for appointment to a police force.
15. Appointment of chief constable.
16. Probationary service in the rank of constable.
17. Discharge of probationer.
18. Retirement.
PERSONAL RECORDS
19. Contents of personal records.
20. Transfer of personal records.
21. Personal record of member leaving force.
22. Fingerprints.
PART III
DUTY, OVERTIME AND LEAVE
23. Duty to carry out lawful orders.
24. Limitations on duties to be assigned to members statutorily transferred.
25. Normal daily period of duty.
26. Overtime.
27. Public holidays and rest days for lower ranks.
28. Public holidays and monthly leave days for higher ranks.
29. Travelling time treated as duty.
30. Meetings of Police Federation treated as police duty.
31. Annual leave.
32. Sick leave.
33. Maternity leave.
34. University scholars.
PART IV
PAY
35. Rate of pay.
36. London weighting.
37. Reckoning of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
38. Reckoning by constables of auxiliary service.
39. Reckoning by constables of service in certain constabularies.
40. Reckoning of service in an airport constabulary.
41. Reckoning by constables of overseas police service.
42. Deductions from pay of social security benefits.
43. Calculation of monthly, weekly and daily pay.
44. Pay day.
PART V
ALLOWANCES AND OTHER EMOLUMENTS
45. Restriction on payment of allowances.
46. Restriction on payments for private employment of police.
47. Rent allowance.
48. Supplementary rent allowance.
49. Application of Regulations 47 and 48 to members of regional crime squads and motorway patrol groups.
50. Compensatory grant.
51. Removal allowance.
52. Uniform allowance.
53. Women's stocking allowance.
54. Plain clothes allowances.
55. Detective duty and detective expenses allowances.
56. Subsistence, refreshment and lodging allowances.
57. Advances to cover expenses when away on duty.
58. Motor vehicle allowances.
59. Bicycle allowance.
60. Typewriter allowance.
61. Dog handler's allowance.
62. Allowance in respect of medical charges.
63. London allowance.
64. Extra duty allowance.
65. Temporary duty allowance.
66. Promotion examination allowances.
67. Allowance for recurring escort duty, etc.
68. Continuance of allowances when member ill.
69. Allowances in respect of periods of suspension.
70. University scholars.
PART VI
HOUSING, UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT
71. Provision of house or quarters.
72. Issue of uniform and equipment.
73. Re-issue of uniform and equipment.
74. Ownership of uniform and equipment.
75. Replacement of uniform and equipment.
76. Footwear.
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1—Regulations revoked with savings.
Schedule 2—Restrictions on the private life of members of police forces.
Schedule 3—Annual leave.
Schedule 4—University scholars.
Schedule 5—Scales of pay.
Schedule 6—Effect of disciplinary action on pay and 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—Dog handler's allowance.
Schedule 12—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(c), I hereby make the following Regulations:—
PART I
GENERAL
Citation and operation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Regulations 1979 and shall come into operation on 1st January, 1980.
Revocations and transitional provisions
2.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Regulation, the Regulations set out in Schedule 1 are hereby revoked.
(2) Where immediately before 1st September 1978 a member of a police force, other than the City of London or metropolitan police force, was entitled to an allowance under Regulation 59 of the Police Regulations 1971(d) he shall be entitled to an allowance calculated as provided in that Regulation while he remains a member of that force.
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;
(a) 1964 c. 48.
(b) 1969 c. 63.
(c) As amended by section 4(6) of the Police Act 1969.
(d) S.I. 1971/156; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1977/1988 (Regulation 59 was revoked, subject to transitional provisions, by Regulation 6 of S.I. 1978/1169).
(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 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(a), the Police Act 1946(b), the Local Government Act 1958(c), the London Government Act 1963(d), the Police Act 1964, or the Local Government Act 1972(e);
(b) in the case of a person who was a member of the River Tyne police force, under the Harbours Act 1964(f).
(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
4. 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.
5.—(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, or 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;
(a) 1933 c. 51.
(b) 1946 c. 46.
(c) 1958 c. 55.
(d) 1963 c. 33.
(e) 1972 c. 70.
(f) 1964 c. 40.
"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(a);
"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, 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 sergeant (C.I.D.) in the metropolitan police force;
"superintendent" includes chief superintendent;
"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 the Royal Ulster Constabulary and a police force maintained under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(b), 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 Policing of Airports Act 1974(c); 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...
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