Paragraph 6

For the purposes of this Schedule, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

• “leave year” means that period of 12 months beginning on such date as may from time to time be determined by the police authority;

• “relevant service” means any service which the member concerned is entitled to reckon for the purposes of his scale of pay together with any service which he was previously so entitled to reckon—

  1. (a)

     in the case of a member below the rank of superintendent, in any lower rank;

  2. (b)

     in any other case, in the rank of superintendent or any higher rank.

  except that relevant service shall not include any such service as is mentioned in regulation 43.

Where a member of an aerodrome constabulary has been transferred to a police force by an order under section 30 of the Aviation Security Act 1982^f1 then, for the purposes of this paragraph, his service in any rank in that constabulary shall be treated as if it were service in the corresponding rank in a police force.