Regulation 3 Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

after “5” there is inserted “, 6” and for the words “18 years” there is substituted “16 years”;

in sub-paragraph (a) the words “whose duties are wholly or mainly administrative, professional or clerical” are omitted;

sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) are revoked;

for sub-paragraph (f) there is substituted–

“any part-time officer who is employed by one or more employing authorities, or by one or more employing authorities and by such other body or bodies as the Secretary of State may designate, in an employment or employments none of which is subject to an election under regulation 6(2), for such hours in any period as in the aggregate amount to not less than one-half of the hours which would constitute whole-time employment in his case;”;

sub-paragraph (g) is revoked;

proviso (i) is revoked and after proviso (iv) the following further proviso is added–

“(v)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (f) of this paragraph–

(a)

a person whose hours of employment are less than one half of the hours which would constitute whole time employment in his case shall nonetheless be treated as satisfying that requirement if his hours of employment under sub-paragraph (e) (not being employment subject to an election under regulation 6(2)) when added to his hours of employment under sub-paragraph (f) would be not less than the period of hours required under that paragraph;

(b)

a part-time officer who continues to be employed by an employing authority shall not cease to be treated as an officer in respect of any period, not exceeding one month, during which his hours of employment are less than one-half of the hours which would constitute whole-time employment in his case;

(c)

a person who, prior to 6th April 1988, satisfied the requirements of paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 6 may continue to qualify to be treated as an officer as if those requirements continued to apply in his case:”.