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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/469",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 in relation to payment of overtime, rent allowance, supplementary rent allowance and compensatory grant.\nRegulation 4 provides for the payment of overtime in specified circumstances where the beginning of an officers tour of duty is brought forward.\nRegulation 5 makes new provision which replaces rent allowance with a new housing allowance. (Whereas rent allowance included reimbursement of an officer’s domestic rate payments, the new housing allowance does not include reimbursement of community charge payments). New regulation 42 makes provision concerning eligibility for and the amount of housing allowance. Eligibility is similar to that for rent allowance, except that where two officers of different police forces live in accommodation provided free by the police authority for one of those forces, neither is to be eligible for housing allowance (proviso (c) to regulation 42(1)); and where two police officers live in accommodation owned by one of them, neither is to be eligible for more than half-rate housing allowance (regulation 42(3)(b)). Regulation 42A provides for the amount of housing allowance in each police force to be adjusted biennially. Regulation 42B provides for a transitional rent allowance, payable instead of housing allowance to police officers who were in receipt of rent allowance on 31st March 1990 and who would otherwise receive less by way of housing allowance than they received in rent allowance. Regulation 42C enables transitional rent allowance to be paid also to certain officers who, temporarily, were not in receipt of rent allowance on that date. Regulation 42D abolishes compensatory grant under regulation 45, except on a transitional basis for officers who receive transitional rent allowance.\nRegulation 6 introduces an allowance payable for a period of 3 years to officers who continue to live in accommodation provided free by the police authority.\nRegulation 7 makes transitional provision for rent allowance for the year from 1st April 1989 to 31st March 1990.\nRegulations 8 and 9 make minor consequential amendments.\nRegulation 4 has effect from 1st September 1989 and regulations 6 and 7 from 1st April 1989 (retrospection being authorised by section 26(3) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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