POLICE 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 23rd May 1988. 2 The Police Regulations 1987 shall be amended as follows:— a at the end of regulations 16 and 17 there shall, in each case, be added the following provision:— 5 In its application to the metropolitan police force this regulation shall have effect as if the expression“chief officer” includes an assistant commissioner of police. ; b for regulation 29(7)(f) there shall be substituted the following provision:— f Where a member is required to do duty, or is recalled to duty, for a period of less than 4 completed hours on a day which is a public holiday or a rostered rest day, such period or, as the case may be, each such period, shall be treated as though it were a period of 4 completed hours; ; c in regulation 35(2), after the words“as respects” there shall be inserted the words“the first”; d in regulation 53(4), for the words“(1) or (2)” there shall be substituted the words“(1) or (3)”; e in regulation 58 (subsistence, refreshment and lodging allowances)— i for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following provision:— 1 A member of a police force of or below the rank of superintendent who, having been retained on duty beyond his normal daily period of duty or engaged on duty away from his usual place of duty, certifies that, by reason of being so retained or engaged, he has been unable to obtain a meal in his usual way and that, as a consequence thereof, he has incurred additional expenditure to obtain food, shall— a if the period for which he is so retained or engaged is not less than two hours but does not exceed five hours, be paid a refreshment allowance; b if the period for which he is so retained or engaged exceeds 5 hours, be paid a subsistence allowance. ; ii after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following provision:— 1A A member of a police force of or below the rank of superintendent who, having been retained on duty beyond his normal daily period of duty or engaged on duty away from his usual place of duty, certifies that he has incurred additional expense for the purpose of obtaining lodging which he would not have required if he had not been so retained or engaged shall be paid a lodging allowance. ; iii for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following provision:— 2 A member of a police force of or below the rank of superintendent who satisfies the chief officer of police that during his normal daily period of duty he has, though not away from his usual place of duty, been prevented by the exigencies of duty from obtaining a meal in his usual way and that he has, as a consequence thereof, incurred additional expenditure to obtain food, may be paid a refreshment allowance. ; iv for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following provision:— 3 For the purposes of this regulation the expression“usual place of duty” means— a in the case of a member of the rank of superintendent, the divisional or sub-divisional headquarters or other police establishment, or b in the case of a member below the rank of superintendent, the police station or other police establishment, in which the member is stationed or, where such place of duty has been temporarily changed, and after such period from the date of change as the chief officer of police may determine, in which he is temporarily stationed, as the case may be. ; and f paragraphs 4 and 5 of Schedule 7 shall be omitted. Douglas Hurd One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office 14th April 1988