{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Public holidays and rest days",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers shall determine the circumstances and manner in which a member of a police force shall be granted leave or otherwise compensated in respect of time spent on duty on–\n(a) public holidays; or\n(b) rostered rest days,\nand in this regulation “rostered rest day”, in relation to a member of a police force who is required to do duty on that day, means a day which according to the duty roster was, immediately before that member was so required to do duty, to have been a rest day for that member.\n(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) the Scottish Ministers may confer on the chief constable discretion–\n(a) to fix the time at which, or the day on which, a period commences for the purposes of the determination;\n(b) to fix the period within which time off in compensation for time spent on duty as mentioned in that paragraph is to be granted;\n(c) to fix a limit on the time occupied by a member of a police force in travelling to and from that member’s place of duty which is to be included in a period of duty for the purposes of the determination.\n(3) In this regulation “public holiday” means Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and each of 6 other days, being as far as practicable local public holidays and in any year where Christmas Day, 26th December or New Year’s Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday the 6 other days shall be increased by 1 for each day on which Christmas Day, 26th December or New Year’s Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/257/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:01.785445+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."
}