The Special Constables (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992

Made: 7th July 1992

Laid before Parliament: 16th July 1992

Coming into force: 1st September 1992

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 34 of the Police Act 1964[^f00001], I hereby make the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Special Constables (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st September 1992.

2

Regulation 5 of the Special Constables Regulations 1965[^f00002] (which relates to sick pay) shall be amended as follows:

• (a) in paragraph (2), there shall be substituted for the words “26 weeks” the words “28 weeks” and for the words from “whichever” in the second place in which it occurs to the end the words “the rate of such loss of remuneration.”; and

• (b) for paragraph (3), there shall be substituted the following provision:

(3) There shall be deducted from the sick pay an amount equal to the amount of any of the following to which the special constable is entitled, that is to say— (a) any sickness benefit under the Social Security Act 1975[^f00003], or (b) any statutory sick pay under the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982[^f00004].

3

The Special Constables (Amendment) Regulations 1968[^f00005] are hereby revoked.

Signed

Kenneth Clarke — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 7th July 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the provisions of the Special Constables Regulations 1965 relating to sick pay. They enable a special constable who suffers injury or contracts a disease in connection with his duties to receive sick pay equal to his resulting loss of remuneration in his private employment, even where that is greater than the rate of pay of a member of a police force of the rank of constable, subject to the deduction of certain sickness benefits, for up to 28 weeks instead of 26 weeks.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1964 c. 48.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1965/536; the only relevant amending instrument is the one revoked by regulation 3 of these Regulations.

[^f00003]: 1975 c. 14.

[^f00004]: 1982 c. 24.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1968/899.