(J) Conditions Of Service

Medical Attendance And Stoppage From Pay.

76). Medical Attendance and stoppage from pay.

A member of a police force shall not be entitled to be absent from duty on account of injury or illness except on the authority of a Medical Officer for the force or other medical practitioner appointed or approved by the Police Authority. Provided that where, owing to absence of the man on leave or for other unavoidable cause, the authority of a Medical Officer for the force cannot be given, the certificate of some other medical practitioner may be accepted in lieu by the Police Authority.

77). The Police Authority shall provide for every member of the Police Force when incapacitated from duty from injury or illness without his own default, free medical attendance by a Medical Officer for the force or other medical practitioner appointed or approved by the Police Authority. Provided that:

a) Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a man who receives treatment in a hospital from being required to contribute towards the cost of his maintenance in the hospital and any such contribution may be deducted from his pay.

b) If a member of a police force is certified by a medical officer for the force or other medical practitioner appointed or approved by the Police Authority to require special treatment, it shall be provided without cost to him if his incapacity was due to an injury received in the execution of his duty without his own default, and otherwise the provision of such treatment shall be at the discretion of the police authority.

78). A member of a police force, when incapacitated for duty by injury or illness, shall, if the Police Authority so direct, be liable to a stoppage from his pay at the rate of 1s. daily during the first three months of absence from duty and thereafter at the rate of 2s daily.

Provided that no stoppage shall be made under this Regulation from the pay of a member of the force who is incapacitated by an injury received in the execution of his duty without his own default or in other special cases approved by the Chief Constable on the recommendation of a Medical Officer for the force or other medical practitioner; and the stoppages shall not be limited to 1s or 2s as the case may be, in a case of sickness certified by a medical practitioner as being due to a man’s misconduct, neglect or default.

In reckoning the approved service of a Member of a Police Force no deduction from service shall be made in respect of duly authorised absence from duty occasioned by sickness, unless a Medical Officer for the Force or other Medical Practitioner certifies that the man has brought about or contributed to the sickness by his own default or vicious habits. (This paragraph inserted – vide Order 81/1923).

79).

a) As from the 1^st April 1922, or the first weekly pay day thereafter a supplementary deduction at the rate of 2 ½ per cent shall be made from the pay of every member of a police force.

b) This shall cease to have effect as from the 31^st March 1923 (“1923” altered to 1924 – vide Order 81/1923), or the first weekly pay day thereafter, unless renewed by further regulation.

A copy of the Secretary of State’s notes on Paragraphs 1(a), 26, 61,73,77 & 78 is forwarded herewith for future guidance.

(Signed) Alfred Law,                                                                                                                                                                    Lieut. Colonel,                                                                                                                                                                                  Chief Constable.