The Police Federation Regulations 1969

Proceedings of branch boards

7.—(1) Each branch board may hold quarterly meetings, each lasting one day and, with the consent of the chief officer of police, additional meetings of the branch board and meetings of committees thereof.

(2) Each branch board shall hold a quarterly meeting in the month following that in which annual elections are held, which meeting is in these Regulations referred to as the annual meeting, and where more than one meeting is held in that month the first meeting so held shall be the annual meeting.

(3) In any branch of the Federation the three or any two of the branch boards may, by agreement, sit together as a joint branch board, either generally or for a special purpose.

(4) Without prejudice to any arrangements for informal consultation, a branch board or joint branch board may make written representations to the chief officer of police or the police authority and, if it thinks fit, submit a copy thereof to the Secretary of State; and in matters of importance a deputation may be appointed to make oral representations to the chief officer of police or the police authority.

(5) Schedule 2 shall have effect in relation to the proceedings of any branch board or joint branch board.