Paragraph 3

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 4 para. 1(1)(a) words inserted by Police Service of Northern Ireland 2003 reg. 3(10)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 1(1)(b) word substituted by Police Service of Northern Ireland 2003 reg. 3(10)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 4A inserted by Police Service of Northern Ireland 2002 reg. 22
Sch. 4 para. 5(1) words substituted by Police Service of Northern Ireland 2004 reg. 16(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5(1)(a)(b) substituted by Police Service of Northern Ireland 2004 reg. 16(3)
Sch. 4 para. 5(3)(4) inserted by Police Service of Northern Ireland 2004 reg. 16(4)

In the case of a member below the rank of assistant chief constable, the chief constable may, in his discretion and subject to the exigencies of duty—

(a)

notwithstanding anything in paragraphs 1 and 2, where he is satisfied that, in any leave year, the member has not taken the full period of annual leave specified in those paragraphs, grant the member, during the following leave year, additional days of annual leave not exceeding the number of days not taken, so, however, that he shall not exercise his discretion so as to grant more than 5 additional days of annual leave to a member unless he is satisfied that there are exceptional circumstances and that it is in the interests of efficiency to do so;

(b)

grant the member not more than 5 additional days of annual leave, to be taken in the last month of the leave year, subject to a corresponding reduction being effected in the member’s period of annual leave under paragraph 1 for the following year.