{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3081",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional rent allowance",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 42B(5) of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance) for the words “half the annual rate of rent allowance payable to him” there shall be substituted the words “flat-rate rent allowance payable to constables of his force of the rank he held”.\n(2) After regulation 42B(5) of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:–\n“(5A) Where a constable in receipt of a transitional rent allowance–\n(a) was entitled on 31st March 1990 to a flat-rate rent allowance, and\n(b) is married to (but not separated from) a woman constable who on or after 1st April 1990 begins a period of unpaid maternity leave,\nhis transitional rent allowance shall, during his wife’s period of unpaid maternity leave, be payable at an annual rate equivalent to the maximum limit rent allowance which would have been payable to him on 31st March 1990 in respect of the accommodation in which he was living on 31st March 1990 if his wife had then been on unpaid maternity leave.\n(5B) Where a constable in receipt of a transitional rent allowance–\n(a) was entitled on 31st March 1990 to a flat-rate rent allowance, and\n(b) was then and remains married to (but not separated from) a constable of a police force who is also in receipt of a transitional rent allowance and who on or after 1st April 1990 resigns (otherwise than upon immediate transfer to another force), retires or is discharged by reason of his services being dispensed with under regulation 12 (whether or not, in the case of a woman constable, the resignation, retirement or discharge immediately follows a period of unpaid maternity leave),\nhis transitional rent allowance shall, after the date on which that resignation, retirement or discharge takes effect, be payable at an annual rate equivalent to the maximum limit rent allowance which would have been payable to him on 31st March 1990 in respect of the accommodation in which he was living on 31st March 1990 if the person to whom he is married had not then been a constable of a police force.”.\n(3) In regulation 42B(8A) (c) of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance) for the words “paragraph (8)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (5A), (5B) or (8)”.\n(4) For sub-paragraph (e) of regulation 42C(3) of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–\n“(e) in paragraph (5), for the word “was” there were substituted the word s “would (if he had then been a constable of his police force) have been”, and for the words which follow “be equal to” there were substituted the words “the flat-rate rent allowance”payable on 31st March 1990 to constables of his force of the rank in which he was serving immediately before the commencement of his period of central service or overseas service.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 42B was inserted by S.I. 1990/469, and paragraph (8A) was inserted into that regulation by S.I. 1990/1312."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 42C was inserted by S.I. 1990/469."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3081/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:45:06.873353+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."
}