The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994

Public holidays and rest days for lower ranks

7.  Regulation 29 of the principal Regulations is amended—

(a) in paragraph (1) by substituting for the word “superintendent” the word “inspector”;

(b) in paragraph (3) by substituting for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c)—

“(a) where he receives less than 15 days' notice of the requirement, an allowance at the appropriate rest-day rate; or

(b) in any other case, another rest day, which shall be notified to him within 4 days of notification of the requirement.”;

(c) by inserting after paragraph (3)—

“(3A) The appropriate rest-day rate is, for each completed 15 minutes of duty on a rostered rest day, the fraction of a day’s pay specified in paragraph (3B).

(3B) The fraction is—

(a) where the member received less than 8 days' notice of the requirement, one sixteenth; and

(b) in any other case, three sixty-fourths.”;

(d) in paragraph (5) by substituting for the words “paragraph (3)(a) or (b)” the words “paragraph (3)(a)”, and for sub-paragraph (b)—

“(b) in the case of a rostered rest day—

(i) where the member received less than 8 days' notice of the requirement, to double, and

(ii) in any other case, to one and a half times,”.

(e) in paragraph (6) by substituting for the words “paragraph (3)(a) or (b)” the words “paragraph (3)(a)”;

(f) in paragraph (7)(c) by deleting the words after “public holiday”; and

(g) in paragraph (7)(f) by inserting after the words “a period of 4 completed hours” the words “,except that a period of not more than one hour of duty on a rostered rest day shall, if it immediately follows a period for which he was on duty as part of a normal daily period of duty, count as the number of periods of 15 minutes actually completed”.