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The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013
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- 2013 No. 35
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- reg. 18(3)(a) words inserted by S.S.I. 2024/179 reg. 6(a)
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- reg. 18(4) inserted by S.S.I. 2024/179 reg. 6(b)
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- reg. 31(1)(ba) inserted by S.S.I. 2024/179 reg. 8(1)(b)
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18.—(1) The Scottish Ministers must determine the circumstances and manner in which a constable is granted leave or otherwise compensated in respect of time spent on duty on—
(a)public holidays; or
(b)rostered rest days.
(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) the Scottish Ministers may confer on the chief constable discretion to fix—
(a)the time at which, or the day on which, a period commences for the purposes of the determination;
(b)the period within which time off in compensation for time spent on duty as mentioned in that paragraph is to be granted;
(c)a limit on the time occupied by a constable in travelling to and from that constable’s place of duty which is to be included in a period of duty for the purposes of the determination.
(3) In this regulation—
[F1(a)“public holiday” means Christmas Day and New Year’s Day; and]
(b)“rostered rest day”, in relation to a constable who is required to do duty on that day, means a day which according to the duty roster was, immediately before that constable was so required to do duty, to have been a rest day for that constable.
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F1Reg. 18(3)(a) substituted (28.2.2014) by The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/1), regs. 1(1), 2
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