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Section 33 Regulations for police forces.C3C1C2

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may make regulations as to the government, administration and conditions of service of police forces.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, regulations under this section may make provision with respect to the following matters, that is to say:—

(a)

the ranks to be held by members of police forces;

(b)

the qualifications for appointment and promotion of members of police forces;

(c)

periods of service on probation;

(d)

voluntary retirement of members of police forces;

F1(e)

the conduct, efficiency and effectiveness of members of police forces and the maintenance of discipline;

(f)

the suspension of members of a police force from membership of that force and from their office as constable;

(g)

the maintenance of personal records of members of police forces;

(h)

the duties which are or are not to be performed by members of police forces;

(i)

the treatment as occasions of police duty of attendance at meetings of the Police Federations and of any body recognised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 47 of this Act;

(j)

the hours of duty, leave, pay and allowances of members of police forces; and

(k)

the issue, use and return of police clothing, personal equipment and accoutrements.

(3)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2F3 (3A) Any reference in this Act to efficiency or to being efficient shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as including, respectively, a reference to effectiveness or to being effective.

(4)

Regulations under this section for regulating pay and allowances may be made with retrospective effect to any date specified therein, but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as authorising pay or allowances payable to any person to be reduced retrospectively.

F4(4A)

Regulations under this section as to conditions of service shall secure that appointments for fixed terms are not made except where the person appointed holds the rank of superintendent or a higher rank.

(5)

Regulations under this section may make different provision for different cases and circumstances, F5. . .

(6)

Any statutory instrument made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 33(2)(e) substituted (8.8.1994) by 1994 c. 29, s. 18(1)(2); S.I. 1994/2025, art. 3

F2

S. 33(3) repealed by Police Act 1976 (c. 46), s. 10(6)

F3

S. 33(3A) inserted (8.8.1994) by 1994 c. 29, s. 18(1)(3); S.I. 1994/2025, art. 3

F4

S. 33(4A) inserted (8.8.1994) by 1994 c. 29, s. 18(1)(4); S.I. 1994/2025, art. 3

F5

Words in s. 33(5) repealed (8.8.1994) by 1994 c. 29, s. 18(1)(5), S.I.1994/2025, art. 3

Modifications

C1

S. 33 amended by Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10, SIF 95), s. 2(1)(a)(2)

C2

S. 33 amended (prosp.) by 1984 c. 60 s. 102 (as substituted (prosp.) by 1994 c. 29, s. 44, Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 33)

C3

S. 33 amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 17(2) and Police Act 1976 (c. 46), s. 10

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act (except ss. 37, 60-65, Sch. 5 and the provisions of Sch. 9 other than the entry relating to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103(3), 104(1), Sch. 9 Pt. I

Ss. 37, 60-62, 64 (except subsection (2)), 65(2)-(4), Sch. 5 repealed (1.4.1999) by 1996 c. 16, s. 103(3), Sch. 9 Pt. II; S.I. 1999/533, art. 2(a)