Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 provides for 3rd and 4th June 2002 to be public holidays for the purposes of the 1996 regulations.

Regulations 3, 5 to 8, 14, 16, 17, 20 and 22, amend regulations 2, 7, 12, 15, 17, 42, 43 and 56 of, and Schedule 4 to, the 1996 regulations and insert a new regulation 37C, so as to take account of any period of service as a police trainee completed by a person before joining the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Regulations 4, 9 and 21 make provision for part-time workers, including those taking part in job-share arrangements. In particular provision is made relating to members' normal period of duty, pay and allowances, and Schedule 1 to the 1996 regulations is amended to take account of the removal of Schedule 6 to those Regulations.

Regulation 10 replaces the pay scales formerly set out in Schedule 6 to the 1996 Regulations with a provision that the pay of members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland be determined by the Secretary of State.

Regulation 11 provides for the pay of a chief inspector who for 14 days in any year performs the duties of a superintendent to be determined in respect of any further days in that year in which the chief inspector performs those duties by reference to the pay range applicable to superintendents. Where those duties are performed for a period of 2 months or more, regulation 13 provides for the chief inspector to be promoted temporarily to the rank of superintendent and to be paid at the rate which would have been appropriate had the promotion not been temporary.

Regulation 12 provides for a higher rate of pay on promotion.

Regulation 15 makes a drafting amendment to the description of the Port of Tilbury Constabulary in regulation 39 of the 1996 Regulations.

Regulations 18 and 23 increase various allowances.

Regulation 19 abolishes detective expenses allowance.

Regulation 24 provides a single dog handler’s allowance and increases the amount.

Regulation 25 makes drafting amendments to the 1996 Regulations to treat replacement allowance in the same way as other allowances payable under those Regulations.

By virtue of regulation 1(2), the regulations there cited have effect from dates before the coming into force of these Regulations. Retrospection is authorised by section 18 of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1962.