Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976, with effect from 1st April 1990 or, in the case of regulation 9, 1st July 1989 (retrospection is authorised by section 26(3) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967).

Regulation 42B of the 1976 Regulations, as amended by the Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/469), provides for certain police officers to receive a transitional rent allowance, usually of an amount equivalent to that of the officer’s rent allowance as at 31st March 1990. Regulation 4 of these Regulations amends regulation 42B so that the transitional rent allowance of an officer of a police force whose rent allowances were last increased in 1988 will be increased by an amount calculated by reference to movements in the retail prices index between the relevant date in 1988 and 1st April 1990.

Regulations 5 to 8 of these Regulations make drafting corrections to provisions substituted by the Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990, and effect no change of substance.

Regulation 9 increases from £1,089 to £1,170 from 1st July 1989 the supplement payable to an officer of a Scottish police force who takes up residence as a university scholar in London.