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Regulation 88 Chief constables affected by alterations in police areas

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

(1)

This paragraph applies in the case of a chief constable of a force who becomes or has become a member of another home police force (“the successor force”) by virtue of an order such as is mentioned in regulation 87(1).

(2)

In relation to a member of a police force to whom paragraph (1) applies and who suffers loss of office as such which is attributable to such an order, these Regulations shall apply as though that officer had–

(a)

where that officer has not attained the age of 55 years on the date when the order takes effect, ceased to serve as a regular police officer on that date; or

(b)

where that officer has attained the age of 55 years on the date when the order takes effect, retired from the successor force on that date, having given to the police authority the required period of written notice of that officer’s intention to retire.