Reckoning of service of constables who have served as police trainees
39.—(1) For the purposes of regulations 23, in reckoning a member’s service in the rank of constable, that service shall include—
(a)any period of service as a police trainee, and
(b)subject to paragraph (2), any period treated as service as a police trainee under regulation 17 of the police trainee regulations.
(2) Where a member is appointed to the rank of constable, and on the date of his appointment his period of service in that rank is deemed under paragraph (1) to consist of —
(a)a period equal to or greater than one year calculated in accordance with Part II or III of Schedule 1 to the police trainee regulations, and
(b)the period of service actually completed by him as a police trainee,
then for the purposes of regulation 23, his period of service as a member of the rank of constable shall be calculated in accordance with paragraph (3) or (4).
(3) So long as the total of—
(a)the period of service which he has actually completed as a member of the rank of constable, and
(b)the period of service which he has actually completed as a police trainee,
is less than the period mentioned in paragraph (2)(a), his period of service in the rank of constable shall be deemed to be equal to the period mentioned in paragraph (2)(a).
(4) Beginning with the date on which the total of the periods mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (3) equals the period mentioned in paragraph (2)(a), his period of service as a member in the rank of constable shall be deemed to be equal to the total of the periods mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (3).