Part-time appointments

3.—(1) In regulation 5 of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 (part-time appointments) –

(a)paragraph (3) (under which a part-time appointment to the rank of constable is permitted only where period of probation completed), and

(b)paragraph (4) (under which a part-time appointment to a rank above sergeant must be a job-share arrangement),

shall cease to have effect.

(2) In Schedule 1 to those regulations (modification for part-time service) –

(a)in paragraph 1, in regulation 2(5) as inserted by that paragraph, for “above the rank of sergeant” there shall be substituted “in a job-share arrangement”, and

(b)in paragraph 4, in the substitute provisions for regulation 20 set out in that paragraph –

(i)in regulation 20(4) at the end there shall be inserted “and, in the case of a member who is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1), shall consider whether any duty to make reasonable adjustments under section 4A of that Act requires him to alter the member’s normal period of duty”;

(ii)in regulation 20(4ZA) at the end there shall be inserted “or where it appears to the Chief Constable or the member that any duty to make reasonable adjustments under section 4A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 may require the Chief Constable to alter the member’s normal period of duty”;

(iii)in regulation 20(4ZB) at the end there shall be inserted “and, in the case of a member who is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, shall consider whether any duty to make reasonable adjustments under section 4A of that Act requires him to alter the member’s normal period of duty”; and

(iv)regulation 20(4B) shall cease to have effect.