{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Reckoning of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary",
  "text": "(1) Where a member of a police force joined or rejoined that force having left the Royal Ulster Constabulary, on or after 17th December 1969, for that purpose or on exercising the right of reversion conferred prior to 1st April 1995 by section 2(1) of the Police Act 1969and on or after that date by section 53C of the 1964 Actthen, for the purposes of regulation 39, his service in any rank in the Royal Ulster Constabulary shall be treated as if it were service in the corresponding rank in the police force he joined or rejoined as aforesaid:\nProvided that in the case of a member of a police force of a rank higher than that of chief inspector this paragraph shall have effect subject to any contrary agreement.\n(2) A member of a police force of the rank of constable shall be entitled to reckon, for the purposes of pay for that rank, any period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary not reckonable under paragraph (1).\n(3) In this regulation, any reference to a rank corresponding to a rank in a police force is a reference to a rank in the Royal Ulster Constabulary designated by the Secretary of State for the purposes hereof as the rank corresponding to the rank in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1969 c. 63."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 53C was inserted by section 26 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/215/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:38.937189+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}