# The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013, Regulation 18: Public holidays and rest days

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(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—
(a) public holidays; or
(b) rostered rest days.
(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) the Scottish Ministers may confer on the chief constable discretion to fix—
(a) the time at which, or the day on which, a period commences for the purposes of the determination;
(b) the period within which time off in compensation for time spent on duty as mentioned in that paragraph is to be granted;
(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.
(3) In this regulation—
(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
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/35/regulation/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-18
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