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

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

3. In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Police Regulations 1987(3).

4. In regulation 49B of the principal Regulations, 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 50(3)(b), payable to a member on 31st March 1990,

(b)for the purposes of paragraph (6) (including that paragraph as applied by regulation 49C), the maximum limit for the purposes of rent allowance fixed on 31st March 1990 for members of a member's new force, or the flat-rate rent allowance then payable to such members, or

(c)for the purposes of paragraph (8), or of paragraph (2), (3) or (5) as applied by regulation 49C, or of paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 49C, the annual rate of rent allowance (or of supplementary rent allowance under regulation 50(3)(b) which would have been payable to a member 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 49A.".

5.-(1) Regulation 49A of the principal Regulations 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 49B(6) of the principal Regulations shall be amended by inserting after the words "maximum limit" the words "for the purposes of".

6. Regulation 49B(4)(b) of the principal Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the words "flat-rate" the words "half-rate".

7. Regulation 49C(2)(b) of the principal Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the words "then be entitled under regulation 49, 40 or 51" the words "be entitled under regulation 49, 50 or 51 at the time when regulation 49B(1) first applied to him by virtue of paragraph (1) of this regulation".

8. Regulation 49D(2) of the principal Regulations 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 member" in sub-paragraph (c) the words "a member shall cease to be eligible for compensatory grant immediately".

9. Regulation 52A(3) of the principal Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the words "A provided accommodation allowance shall cease to be payable to a member" the words "A member shall cease to be eligible for the payment of a provided accommodation allowance".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Police Regulations 1987, with effect from 1st April 1990 (retrospection is authorised by section 33(4) of the Police Act 1964).

Regulation 49B of the 1987 Regulations, as amended by the Police (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/401), provides for certain police officers to receive a transitional rent allowance, usually of an amount equivalent to that of the officer's rent allowance as at 31st March 1990. Regulation 4 of these Regulations amends regulation 49B so that the transitional rent allowance of a member of a police force whose rent allowances were last increased in 1988 will be increased by an amount calculated by reference to movements in the retail prices index between the relevant date in 1988 and 1st April 1990.

Regulations 5 to 9 of these Regulations make drafting corrections to provisions substituted by the Police (Amendment) Regulations 1990, and effect no change of substance.