The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Police Regulations 1987 in relation to rent allowance, supplementary rent allowance and compensatory grant.

Regulation 3 makes fresh provision which replaces rent allowance with a new housing allowance. (Whereas rent allowance included reimbursement of an officer’s domestic rate payments, the new housing allowance does not include reimbursement of community charge payments.) New regulation 49 makes provision concerning eligibility for and the amount of housing allowance. Eligibility is similar to that for rent allowance, except that where two members of different police forces live in accommodation provided free by the police authority for one of those forces, neither is to be eligible for housing allowance (proviso (c) to regulation 49(1)); and where two police officers live in accommodation owned by one of them, neither is to be eligible for more than half-rate housing allowance (regulation 49(3)(b)). Regulation 49A provides for the amount of housing allowance in each police force to be adjusted biennially. Regulation 49B provides for a transitional rent allowance, payable instead of housing allowance to police officers who were in receipt of rent allowance on 31st March 1990 and who would otherwise receive less by way of housing allowance than they received in rent allowance. Regulation 49C enables transitional rent allowance to be paid also to certain officers who, temporarily, were not in receipt of rent allowance on that date. Regulation 49D abolishes compensatory grant under regulation 52, except on a temporary basis for officers who receive transitional rent allowance.

Regulation 4 introduces an allowance payable for a period of 3 years to officers who continue to live in accommodation provided free by the police authority.

Regulation 5 makes minor consequential amendments.