PART 1COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION
Interpretation3.
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In these Regulations—
“Act” means the Police Act 1996;
“central police officer” has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
“chief officer” means chief officer of police;
“Conduct Regulations” means the regulations relating to conduct from time to time in force under section 50 of the Act;
“maternity leave” means leave taken in accordance with a determination under regulation 33(7);
“member of a police force” includes such a member who is suspended under the Conduct Regulations;
“pensionable service” has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
“Promotion Regulations” means the regulations relating to qualification and selection for promotion from time to time in force under section 50 of the Act;
“public holiday” means Christmas Day, the 26th December (if it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday), the 1st January (if it so falls), Good Friday or a bank holiday;
“the representative bodies” means the Police Federation for England and Wales and all bodies for the time being recognised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 64 of the Act;
“reversionary member of a home police force” has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
“university scholar” means a member of a police force on a course of university study nominated by the Secretary of State or by the police authority maintaining the police force of which he is a member following arrangements approved by the Secretary of State.
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Nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as authorising pay or allowances payable to any person to be reduced retrospectively.