Regulation 50 Police service

Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of these Regulations, the holding, otherwise than under a contract of employment, of the office of constable shall be treated as employment, under a worker’s contract, by the relevant officer.

For the purposes of these Regulations, any constable who has been seconded to the National Crime Agency to serve as a member of its staff shall be treated as employed by the National Crime Agency.

Any matter relating to the employment of a worker which may be provided for the purposes of these Regulations in a workforce agreement may be provided for the same purposes in relation to the service of a person holding the office of constable by an agreement between the relevant officer and the central committee.

In this regulation—

• “the central committee” means the committee constituted in accordance with regulation 14 of the Police Association for Northern Ireland Regulations 1991^f1; and

• “the relevant officer” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland or the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve, the chief constable; and

  2. (b)

     in relation to any other person holding the office of constable, the person who has the direction and control of the body of constables in question.