The Police (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1312
• Sections: 9

Section 1 Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990.

Section 2 Commencement

These Regulations shall come into force on 26th July 1990 and shall have effect for the purposes of regulations 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 as from 1st April 1990 and for the purposes of regulation 9 as from 1st July 1989.

Section 3 Interpretation

In these Regulations any reference to “the principal Regulations” is a reference to the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 .

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 42B of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance), there shall be inserted after paragraph (8) the following paragraph:–

(8A) In determining–

(a) for the purposes of paragraph (1), (2), (3) or (5), the annual rate of rent allowance, or supplementary rent allowance under regulation 43(3)(b), payable to a constable on 31st March 1990;

(b) for the purposes of paragraph (6) (including that paragraph as applied by regulation 42C), the maximum limit for the purposes of rent allowance fixed on 31st March 1990 for constables of the constable’s new force, or the flat-rate rent allowance then payable to such constables; or

(c) for the purposes of paragraph (8), or of paragraph (2), (3) or (5) as applied by regulation 42C, or of paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 42C, the annual rate of rent allowance (or of supplementary rent allowance under regulation 43(3)(b)) which would have been payable to a constable on 31st March 1990,

(but for no other purposes of these Regulations) the rate of rent allowance payable, or which would have been payable, on that date or the maximum limit fixed at that time, as the case may be, shall, in relation to a force whose maximum limit for the purposes of rent allowance would have fallen to be re-fixed by the police authority on a date during 1990, be deemed to be increased by the same percentage as that by which the housing allowances in relation to that force were increased on 1st April 1990 in accordance with regulation 42A.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1) Regulation 42A of the principal Regulations (housing allowance: supplementary) shall be amended by–

(a) inserting after the words “maximum limit” in both places where they occur the words “for the purposes of”; and

(b) substituting for the words “rent allowance or” the words “maximum limit for the purposes of rent allowance or the”.

(2) Regulation 42B(6) of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance) shall be amended by inserting after the words “maximum limit” the words “for the purposes of”.

Section 6 Amendment of the principal Regulations

Regulation 42C(2)(b) of the principal Regulations (transitional rent allowance) shall be amended by substituting for the words “then be entitled under regulation 42, 43 or 44” the words “be entitled under regulation 42, 43 or 44 at the time when regulation 42B(1) first applied to him by virtue of paragraph (1) of this regulation”.

Section 7 Amendment of the principal Regulations

Regulation 42D(2) of the principal Regulations (compensatory grant) shall be amended by–

(a) inserting in sub-paragraph (b), after the word “payable” in the first place where it occurs, the words “in respect of any period”; and

(b) substituting for the words “no compensatory grant shall be payable to a constable” in sub-paragraph (c) the words “a constable shall cease to be eligible for compensatory grant immediately”.

Section 8 Amendment of the principal Regulations

Regulation 45A(3) of the principal Regulations (provided accommodation allowance) shall be amended by substituting for the words “A provided accommodation allowance shall cease to be payable to a constable” the words “A constable shall cease to be eligible for the payment of a provided accommodation allowance”.

Section 9 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 9 to the principal Regulations (university scholars) there shall be inserted after the words “rate of” and in place of the words “£1,017 a year with effect from 1st July 1987 and the rate of £1,089 a year with effect from 1st July 1988” the words “£1,170 a year”.