9.—(1) If, during any previous service in a police force specified in paragraph (2), a constable has passed an examination or course which would qualify the constable for promotion in that police force—
(a)from the rank of constable to that of sergeant, the constable is taken to have obtained the qualifying diploma to qualify for promotion up to (and including) the rank of inspector for the purposes of regulations 3, 7 and 8; or
(b)from the rank of sergeant to that of inspector, the constable is taken to have obtained the qualifying diploma to qualify for promotion to any rank below that of assistant chief constable for the purposes of regulations 3 and 7.
(2) The police forces are—
(a)a police force maintained under section 2(1) of the Police Act 1996(1);
(b)the metropolitan police force;
(c)the City of London police force;
(d)the Police Service of Northern Ireland;
(e)the British Transport Police Force;
(f)the States of Jersey Police Force;
(g)the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey; and
(h)the Isle of Man Constabulary.
(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of a constable who has passed an examination which would qualify the constable for promotion in the Isle of Man Constabulary where that examination was taken before 1st January 1983.
1996 c.16; section 2 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13).