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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/727",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1988",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Police Regulations 1987 (“the 1987 Regulations”) with effect from 23rd May 1988.\nRegulation 2(a) amends Regulations 16 and 17 of the 1987 Regulations (constable’s probationary service) so that, in relation to the metropolitan police force, the reference to the chief officer (who exercises certain functions in relation to the probationer) includes an assistant commissioner of police.\nRegulation 2(b) ensures that any period of duty, including a period for which a member is recalled to duty, of less than 4 completed hours on a day which is a public holiday or a rostered rest day is to be treated as though it were a period of 4 completed hours.\nRegulation 2(c) provides that the three months of maternity leave for which a member is entitled to be paid shall be the first three months of such leave.\nRegulation 2(d) corrects a minor error in the consolidation of the 1987 Regulations.\nRegulation 2(e) amends the provisions of the 1987 Regulations relating to refreshment, subsistence and lodging allowances payable to a member of a police force of or below the rank of superintendent. It is made clear that the allowances are payable in respect of additional expense incurred where a member has been unable to obtain food or meals in his usual way or has been required to obtain lodging which he would not normally require. The minimum period of retention on duty to qualify for a refreshment allowance is increased from one to two hours. In the case of a member who is retained on duty beyond his normal period of duty or is engaged on duty away from his usual place of duty, such allowances are to be payable where the member certifies that, by reason of being so retained or engaged, he has incurred such additional expense. The expression“usual place of duty” is defined as the divisional or sub-divisonal headquarters (in the case of a superintendent) or police station (in the case of a member below the rank of superintendent), or other police establishment, in which the member is stationed or, after such period as the chief officer may determine, temporarily stationed, as the case may be.\nRegulation 2(f) removes a chief officer’s power to reduce the amounts of the refreshment, subsistence and lodging allowances provided for by the 1987 Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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