# The Police (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 1993, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Police Regulations 1987 (“the principal Regulations”), mainly so as to make provision for variable shift arrangements.
Regulation 3 inserts into the principal Regulations a new regulation 26A which authorises a chief officer of police, with the consent of the Secretary of State, to bring into operation variable shift arrangements agreed with the Police Federation joint branch board. The arrangements may be for all full-time officers below the rank of superintendent or for a particular class, and must provide for hours of duty and annual leave equivalent to those of other full-time officers.
The principal Regulations are applied to variable-shift officers with the modifications set out in a new Schedule 2A (inserted by regulation 4). Paragraphs 1, 6 and 10 disapply the provisions of the principal Regulations relating to the normal (8-hour) daily period of duty and to annual leave. Paragraph 2 provides for a more flexible system of duty rosters; paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 make modified provision for, respectively, overtime payments, rest days, travelling time, temporary salary while performing the duties of a higher rank, subsistence allowance and escort duty allowance.
In regulation 5, which is unrelated to the foregoing regulations, paragraph (1) increases annual leave entitlements by one day for leave years beginning after 31st December 1993. The Police Negotiating Board recommended that this increase should have effect for leave years beginning after 31st December 1991; the transitory provision in paragraph (2) provides compensation in the form of an extra 2 days for leave years beginning during 1993.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2047/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-no3-regulations-1993/note
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