Regulation 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 42B of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance), there shall be inserted after paragraph (8) the following paragraph:–

“(8A)

In determining–

(a)

for the purposes of paragraph (1), (2), (3) or (5), the annual rate of rent allowance, or supplementary rent allowance under regulation 43(3)(b), payable to a constable on 31st March 1990;

(b)

for the purposes of paragraph (6) (including that paragraph as applied by regulation 42C), the maximum limit for the purposes of rent allowance fixed on 31st March 1990 for constables of the constable’s new force, or the flat-rate rent allowance then payable to such constables; or

(c)

for the purposes of paragraph (8), or of paragraph (2), (3) or (5) as applied by regulation 42C, or of paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 42C, the annual rate of rent allowance (or of supplementary rent allowance under regulation 43(3)(b)) which would have been payable to a constable on 31st March 1990,

(but for no other purposes of these Regulations) the rate of rent allowance payable, or which would have been payable, on that date or the maximum limit fixed at that time, as the case may be, shall, in relation to a force whose maximum limit for the purposes of rent allowance would have fallen to be re-fixed by the police authority on a date during 1990, be deemed to be increased by the same percentage as that by which the housing allowances in relation to that force were increased on 1st April 1990 in accordance with regulation 42A.”.