Regulation 66 Promotion examination allowances
A constable who has taken an examination or paper in consequence of which he obtains a pass in the qualifying examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant shall, subject to paragraph (3), be paid a promotion examination allowance of £45.
A constable or sergeant who has taken an examination or paper in consequence of which he obtains a pass in the qualifying examination for promotion to the rank of inspector shall, subject to paragraph (3), be paid a promotion examination allowance of £45.
A constable’s promotion examination allowance shall not be payable to a member of a police force who previously—
has obtained, or been deemed to have obtained, a pass in the corresponding qualifying examination held under any Promotion Regulations made on or after 17th September 1952, or
while serving in a police force in Scotland or in such a constabulary as is mentioned in paragraph (4), has received a payment for passing the examination which qualified him, in that force or constabulary, for promotion from constable to sergeant or, as the case may be, from sergeant to inspector.
The reference in paragraph (3) to a constabulary is a reference to any force of constables outside Great Britain previous service in which a member of a police force may reckon as pensionable service; and where the rank in such a constabulary which appears to the Secretary of State to correspond to that of constable, sergeant or, as the case may be, inspector is not so styled, paragraph (3)(b) shall have effect in relation to that constabulary as if for any reference therein to that rank there were substituted a reference to such a rank as the Secretary of State determines to be the corresponding rank.
Where an overseas policeman, a central police officer or a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary enjoying a right of reversion to a home police force has, while serving as such, qualified for a promotion examination allowance under paragraph (1) or (2), he shall, subject to paragraph (3), be paid such an allowance on exercising his right of reversion to his police force under section 2(1) of the Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945, section 43(1) of the Police Act 1964 or, as the case may be, section 2(1) of the Police Act 1969.
An allowance payable under paragraph (1) or (2) shall be payable by the police authority maintaining the force of which the person concerned was a member when he took the examination or paper referred to in the paragraph in question, and an allowance payble under paragraph (5) shall be payable by the police authority maintaining the force to which the person concerned reverts.
In this regulation any reference to the qualifying examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant or to the qualifying examination for promotion to the rank of inspector shall be construed as a reference to the qualifying examination or, in relation to a period before 1st June 1967, both the qualifying examinations, held under the Promotion Regulations, for promotion from constable to sergeant or, as the case may be, from sergeant to inspector.