The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989.

2.  These Regulations shall come into force on 1st November 1989 and shall have effect for all the purposes of regulation 3 as from 1st September 1989.

3.—(1) The Police Regulations 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 28 (overtime)–

(a) in paragraph (1) there shall be inserted after the words “two tours of duty” the words “or which forms part of a tour of duty which he is required to begin earlier than the rostered time without due notice and on a day when he has already completed his normal daily period of duty”;

(b) in paragraph (7)–

(i) there shall be inserted at the beginning of sub-paragraph (b) the words “subject to sub-paragraph (d),”,

(ii) the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted, and

(iii) there shall be inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (c) the following provision–

“; and

(d) where the time at which a member is required to begin a rostered tour of duty is brought forward without due notice and so that he is required to begin that tour on a day on which he has already completed his normal daily period of duty, the time for which he is on duty before the rostered commencement time–

(i) shall be reckonable as overtime, and

(ii) shall be taken into account as part of that tour of duty.”; and

(c) in paragraph (8) there shall be inserted after the definition of “a day’s pay” the following provision–

““due notice” means notice given at least 8 hours before the revised starting time of the rostered tour of duty in question;”.

(3) In regulation 57 (detective duty and detective expenses allowances)–

(a) there shall be inserted after paragraph (2) the following paragraph–

“(2A) Such a member of the rank of superintendent shall be paid in addition a detective expenses allowance at the rate of £5 a week; and shall not be eligible for the reimbursement of expenses incurred in the execution of his duty in respect of any individual item of expenditure of £1.25p or less.”; and

(b) in paragraph (3) there shall be substituted for the words “£1 a week” the words “£3 a week; and shall not be eligible for the reimbursement of expenses incurred in the execution of his duty in respect of any individual item of expenditure of 75 pence or less”.

(4) In Schedule 5 (scales of pay)–

(a) for tables A and B there shall be substituted respectively the tables set out in the Appendix to these Regulations;

(b) in paragraph 2(2) the words “on or before 31st August 1988” shall be omitted; and

(c) sub-paragraphs (2A) and (2B) of paragraph 2 shall be omitted.

(5) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 (dog handler’s allowance) for the words “£663” in sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “£723” and for the words “£903” in sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “£987”.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

22nd September 1989