{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Public holidays and rest days",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must determine the circumstances and manner in which a constable is granted leave or otherwise compensated in respect of time spent on duty on—\n(a) public holidays; or\n(b) rostered rest days.\n(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) the Scottish Ministers may confer on the chief constable discretion to fix—\n(a) the time at which, or the day on which, a period commences for the purposes of the determination;\n(b) the period within which time off in compensation for time spent on duty as mentioned in that paragraph is to be granted;\n(c) a limit on the time occupied by a constable in travelling to and from that constable’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—\n(a) “public holiday” means Christmas Day and New Year’s Day or such other days that a constable has nominated in accordance with paragraph (4); and\n(b) “rostered rest day”, in relation to a constable who is required to do duty on that day, means a day which according to the duty roster was, immediately before that constable was so required to do duty, to have been a rest day for that constable.\n(4) With the agreement of the chief constable, a constable may nominate a day in place of either or both of Christmas Day or New Year’s Day for religious or cultural reasons.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18(3)(a) substituted (28.2.2014) by The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/1), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(3)(a) inserted (4.10.2024) by The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/179), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 18(4) inserted (4.10.2024) by The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/179), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/35/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:10.479680+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."
}