3.—(1) The Police Regulations 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 13(1)(b) (qualifications for appointment to a police force), the words which follow the words “18 years 6 months” shall be omitted.
(3) In regulation 13(1)(d), the words from “—(i) unless” to “and (ii)” shall be omitted.
(4) In regulation 21(1) (personal record of member leaving force), the words “and the reason, cause or manner of his leaving the force” and the proviso to that paragraph shall be omitted.
(5) In regulation 39 (London weighting) there shall be substituted for the words “in respect of the period from 1st July1987 to 30th June 1988 by £1,017 and with effect from 1st July 1988 by £1,089” the words “by £1,170”.
(6) In paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 (university scholars' supplementary pay) there shall be substituted for the words “£1,017 a year in respect of the period from 1st July 1987 to 30th June 1988 and £1,089 a year with effect from 1st July 1988” the words “£1,170 a year”.
(7) In regulation 49B(4)(b) there shall be substituted for the words “for the financial year” the words “and any compensatory grant in relation to such rent allowance in respect of the period”.
(8) There shall be inserted after regulation 49B(5) the following paragraph:
“(5A) Where a member in receipt of a transitional rent allowance —
(a)was entitled on 31st March 1990 to a flat-rate rent allowance, and
(b)is married to (but not separated from) a woman member of a police force who on or after 1st April 1990 begins a period of unpaid maternity leave,
his transitional rent allowance shall, during his wife’s period of unpaid maternity leave, be payable at an annual rate equivalent to the maximum limit rent allowance which would have been payable to him on 31st March 1990 in respect of the accommodation in which he was living on 31st March 1990 if his wife had then been on unpaid maternity leave.”.
(9) There shall be substituted for regulation 52A (1) the following paragraph:
“(1) This paragraph applies to —
(a)a member of a police force who was on 31st March 1990 occupying a house or quarters with which he was provided by his police authority free of rent and rates and who on and after 1st April 1990 continues to occupy such accommodation free of rent;
(b)a woman member of a police force who on 31st March 1990 was on unpaid maternity leave under regulation 35 and had ceased to occupy a house or quarters so provided by reason only of her being on that leave and who on her subsequent return to duty is again provided with a house or quarters free of rent (but applies only from the date of that return to duty);
and again applies (from the date of her return to duty) to a woman member of a police force to whom sub-paragraph (a) or (b) has applied, who has ceased to be provided with a house or quarters free of rent by reason only of her being on unpaid maternity leave under regulation 35 and who on her subsequent return to duty is again so provided.”.