{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/473",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Public holidays and monthly leave days for ranks above chief inspector",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply to every member of, or above, the rank of superintendent.\n(2) Such a member shall, so far as the exigencies of duty permit, be allowed a day’s leave on each public holiday and be granted in each month—\n(a) in the case of a superintendent, 8 monthly leave days;\n(b) in any other case, 1½ monthly leave days.\n(3) Where the exigencies of duty have precluded—\n(a) the allowance of a day’s leave on a public holiday, or\n(b) the grant in any month of eight monthly leave days,\nto a superintendent, he shall, during the next twelve months and so far as the exigencies of duty permit, be allowed or (as the case may be) granted a day’s leave in lieu of any such day not allowed or granted.\n(4) Where the exigencies of duty have precluded the allowance of a day’s leave on a public holiday to any such member other than a superintendent, he shall, during the next three months and so far as the exigencies of duty permit, be allowed a day’s leave in lieu of any such day not allowed.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation the expression “month” means that period of 28 days beginning with such day as is fixed by the chief constable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/122",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Secondment) (Garda Síochána) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/473/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:07.933033+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."
}