# The Police (Scotland) Amendment (No.4) Regulations 1995, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 (“the principal Regulations”).
These Regulations make provision for part-time service of constables of police forces maintained in Scotland by inserting a new regulation 2A and a new Schedule 1B into the principal Regulations. Regulation 2A authorises chief constables to make part-time appointments, and applies the principal Regulations to part-time appointees with the modification set out in Schedule 1B.
Regulation 3 scales down part-time service for pay and leave purposes.
The new Schedule 1B inserted by regulation 3 of, and the Schedule to, these Regulations makes a number of detailed modifications to the principal Regulations in their application to part-time appointees. The main ones are as follows.
Part-time constables (who must have completed full-time probation before appointment) may be required to serve a further period of probation (paragraphs 2 and 3).
Part-time duty in ranks below superintendent is to be performed in accordance with general arrangements made by the chief constable after consulting the police authority and local staff associations, an individual’s normal period of duty during a duty roster period being a number of hours determined with his agreement by the chief constable (paragraph 4). That number divided by the hours that would be required of a full-time officer constitutes the “appropriate factor” (paragraph 1) to be used in calculating various entitlements; for ranks above sergeant the factor is one half, since in their case a part-time appointment involves the sharing of duties with one other officer (see new regulation 2A(4)). Examples of the use of the factor occur in paragraphs 7 and 9 (public holidays, rest days and monthly leave days); 10 (annual leave); 14(b) (senior ranks' pay); 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21 (various allowances).
Paragraph 5 provides for a more flexible system of duty rosters and introduces “free days” in addition to rest days; paragraphs 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 make modified provision for, respectively, overtime payments, payments for working on public holidays and rest and free days, travelling time; sick leave and maternity leave; paragraph 14(a) converts lower ranks' annual pay to hourly equivalents.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3001/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-no4-regulations-1995/note
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