Police Regulations 1963

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2075/1963
Year1963

1963 No. 2075

POLICE

ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police Regulations 1963

18thDecember 1963

31stDecember 1963

I, the Right Honourable Henry Brooke, M.P., one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section 4 of the Police Act 1919(a), hereby make the following Regulations:—

1.—(1) In paragraph (2)(d) of Regulation 23 of the principal Regulations (which relates to the reckoning of certain service for the scale of pay for the rank of constable) for the words "and any period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary" there shall be substituted the words "any period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary and any period of certified overseas police service such as is mentioned in the next following paragraph".

(2) After paragraph (2) of the said Regulation 23 there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

"(2A) The reference in the preceding paragraph to certified overseas police service is a reference to—

(a) continuous service as a member of a police force in any territory or country outside the United Kingdom, being a colony, protectorate or protected state within the meaning of the British Nationality Act 1948(b) or, where appropriate, the territory or country wherein the colony, protectorate or protected state was incorporated after the inception of the service, subject to it being certified by or on behalf of the Secretary for Technical Co-operation that—

(i) the service was, at its inception, pensionable, and

(ii) in his opinion the person concerned ceased so to serve for reasons connected with constitutional developments in the territory or country in question; or

"(b) continuous service for 6 years or more as a member of a police force in any territory or country outside the United Kingdom, subject to it being certified by or on behalf of the Secretary for Technical Co-operation that—

(i) the person concerned so served under a contract of service,

(ii) immediately before he ceased so to serve, the person concerned was, for the purposes of section 1 of the Overseas Service Act 1961(c), a person designated in accordance with such an agreement as is therein mentioned, and

(iii) in his opinion the person concerned ceased so to serve for reasons connected with constitutional developments in the territory or country in question;

except that the said reference in the preceding paragraph does not include a reference to service as a reversionary member of a home police force...

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