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Police (Weekly Rest-Day) Act 1910

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Police (Weekly Rest-Day) Act, 1910

(10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 13.

An Act to facilitate the grant to members of the Constabulary of one day's rest off duty in every seven.

[26th July 1910]

B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 No constable to be on duty more than six days in any week.

1 No constable to be on duty more than six days in any week.

(1) The police authority of any county or borough in England or Wales as respects which this Act is for the time being in force shall make such arrangements as to the hours of duty of constables that every constable (not being above the rank of inspector) shall be allowed at least fifty-two days in a year on which he is not required to perform police duty, save on occasions of emergency, and for such days being distributed throughout the year with the object of securing, so far as practicable, to every such constable one day's rest in every seven.

(2) This Act shall not come into force as respects any police authority until such date as may be fixed by the authority, but, if this Act has not come into force as respects the police authority of any county borough maintaining a separate police force before the expiration of four years from the passing of this Act, it shall come into force as respects that authority at the expiration of that period. And, if this Act has not come into force as respects any other police authority on such date not less than four years after the passing of this Act as may hereafter be fixed by Order in Council, it shall come into force at any date so fixed, and the Order may apply either to all such other police authorities generally or to any authority specified in the Order; and may contain such modifications as may be necessary to provide for the case of small police stations in rural districts, or for other special circumstances affecting the district of a police authority:

Provided that before any Order in Council is made under this Act, the draft thereof shall...

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