{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/369",
  "legislation_title": "Police Trainee Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Pay during sick leave",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), if, on any relevant day, a police trainee has, during his period of service as a police trainee, been on sick leave for 42 days, he ceases for the time being to be entitled to full pay, and becomes entitled to half pay, while on sick leave.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), if on any relevant day, a police trainee has, during his period of service as a police trainee, been on sick leave for 196 days, he ceases for the time being to be entitled to any pay while on sick leave.\n(3) The Chief Constable may in a particular case determine that for a specified period—\n(a) a police trainee who is entitled to half pay while on sick leave is to receive full pay; or\n(b) a police trainee who is not entitled to any pay while on sick leave is to receive either full pay or half pay,\nand may from time to time determine to extend the period.\n(4) The Chief Constable, if he is satisfied after consultation with a medical practitioner appointed under standing orders made under regulation 7, that a particular case is exceptional, shall determine in consultation with the said medical practitioner that for a specified period—\n(a) a police trainee who is entitled to half pay while on sick leave is to receive full pay; or\n(b) a police trainee who is not entitled to any pay while on sick leave is to receive either full pay or half pay.\nAn exceptional case is a case in which the police trainee’s being on sick leave is directly attributable to an injury received as a consequence of a person’s service as a police trainee.\n(5) For the purpose of this regulation a relevant day is a day on which a police trainee is on sick leave, and in this regulation—\n(a) references to a police trainee’s being on sick leave are references to his being absent from training while entitled to be so under regulation 12, and include his being absent from training on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday regardless of whether he was required to attend training on that day under regulation 4;\n(b) references to full pay are references to pay at the rate ascertained from a determination made under regulation 16;\n(c) references to half pay are references to pay at half the rate of the police trainee’s full pay; and\n(d) “an injury received as a consequence of a person’s service as a police trainee” has the same meaning as in regulation A10 of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988 as modified by paragraph 8 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in operation at 2.11.2001, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1988 No. 374"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/369/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:08.377319+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."
}