Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2005

Public holidays and rest days

25.—(1) The Secretary of State shall determine the circumstances and manner in which a member shall be granted leave or otherwise compensated in respect of time spent on duty on—

(a) public holidays, or

(b) rostered rest days;

and in this regulation “rostered rest day”, in relation to a member who is required to do duty on that day, means a day which according to the duty roster was, immediately before he was so required to do duty, to have been a rest day for the member.

(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) the Secretary of State may confer on the Chief Constable discretion—

(a) to fix the time at which, or the day on which, a period commences for the purposes of the determination;

(b) to fix the period within which time off in compensation for time spent on duty as mentioned in that paragraph is to be granted;

(c) to fix a limit on the time occupied by a member in travelling to and from his place of duty which is to be included in a period of duty for the purposes of the determination.