
PART I
1 

(1) These Regulations
may be cited as the Police Federation Regulations 1969 and shall come into
operation on 1st January 1970.
(2) These Regulations
shall not extend to Scotland.
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(1) In these Regulations
the expression 
“division”,in relation to a police force, has the same meaning as in the regulations for the time being in
force under section 33
of the Police
Act 1964 but, for the purposes of these Regulations,
a member of a specialist branch of a police force shall be deemed not to belong
to a division of that force.
(2) In these Regulations
the expression “specialist branch”, in relation to
a police force, means—
(a) the criminal investigation department thereof,

(b) the traffic
branch thereof, or
(c) the branch
attached to the headquarters thereof,
 however styled, except that, in relation to the metropolitan police
force, the said expression means the criminal investigation department thereof
or the A, B and D departments, attached to the office of the commissioner
of police of the metropolis, taken together.
(3) In these Regulations,
unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a Regulation shall be
construed as a reference to a Regulation contained in these Regulations, a
reference to a Schedule shall be construed as a reference to a Schedule to
these Regulations and a reference to a paragraph shall be construed as a reference
to a paragraph in the same Regulation, the same Schedule or the same Part
of a Schedule, as the case may be.
(4) In these Regulations
any reference to any enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended
or extended by or under any subsequent enactment.
(5) The Interpretation Act 1889
shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for
the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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(1) The Regulations set
out in Schedule 1,
that is to say the Police Federation Regulations
1965
and the Regulations amending those Regulations, are hereby revoked.
(2) Anything done under,
or for the purposes of, any provision of the Regulations revoked by this Regulation
shall have effect as if done under, or for the purposes of, the corresponding
provision of these Regulations.
PART II
4 

(1) 
The Police Federation for England and Wales (hereinafter referred to as “the Federation”
) shall be known as the Police Federation.
(2) There shall be a
branch of the Federation for each police force, consisting of the following
persons—
(a) every member
of that force below the rank of superintendent, and
(b) every police
cadet undergoing training with a view to becoming a member of that force,
and every such person shall be a member of the Federation.
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(1) General meetings
of the members of a branch of the Federation, or of such members belonging
to a particular division or specialist branch of a police force, may be held
in accordance with arrangements made by—
(a) a board or joint
board of that branch, or
(b) a central committee
or the joint central committee of the Federation.
(2) The chief officer
of police of the force in whose area such a meeting is to be held shall be
given at least fourteen days' notice of the date of the meeting.
(3) The arrangements
referred to in paragraph (1) may provide for the attendance at a meeting of
members of the police authority and of other members of the Federation but
shall not permit the attendance of other persons except to such extent, and
subject to such conditions, as may be determined—
(a) by the chief
officer of police, where the arrangements are made under paragraph (1)(a);

(b) by the Secretary
of State, where the arrangements are made under paragraph (1)(b).
(4) The arrangements
referred to in paragraph (1) shall not permit the passing of a resolution
at a meeting for submission to a chief officer of police, a police authority
or the Secretary of State.
(5) Subject to the provisions
of the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1), Schedule 2
shall have effect in relation to the proceedings of a meeting held under this
Regulation.
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(1) In each branch of
the Federation there shall be constituted, in accordance with this Regulation,
an inspectors', a sergeants' and a constables' branch board.
(2) Where a police force
consists of fewer than five divisions, the men belonging to those divisions
holding the rank of inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be, constable
in that force shall elect, from among their number, five members of the appropriate
branch board.
(3) Where a police force
consists of five or more divisions, the men belonging to each division and
holding the rank of inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be, constable
therein shall elect from among their number one member of the appropriate
branch board.
(4) The men belonging
to each specialist branch of a police force and holding the rank of inspector,
sergeant or, as the case may be, constable therein shall elect from among
their number one member of the appropriate branch board except that in the
case of the two specialist branches of the metropolitan police force—

(a) five members
shall be elected by the criminal investigation department, and
(b) three members
shall be elected by the A, B and D departments.
(5) The women holding
the rank of inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be, constable in a police
force shall elect one member of the appropriate branch board from among their
own number or, in the case of the metropolitan police force, from among the
members thereof elected as delegates to the appropriate central conference
in accordance with Regulation 9(4).

(6) The police cadets
undergoing training with a view to becoming members of a police force may
elect, from among their number, one member of the constables' branch board;
but, where they do not so elect a member, they shall designate to represent
their interests a member of the constables' branch board elected in accordance
with the preceding provisions of this Regulation.
(7) Schedule 3 shall have effect in
relation to a branch board, so however that in any election thereto—

(a) if only one
person is qualified to take part therein, that person shall be deemed to be
elected;
(b) if only two
persons are qualified to take part therein, subject to any agreement to the
contrary between them, the senior of those two shall be deemed to be elected.

(8) Annual elections
shall be held for the purposes of this Regulation in such month in each year
as the Secretary of State may determine at the request of the joint central
committee of the Federation.
(9) A person becoming
a member of a branch board shall, subject to any rules made under paragraph 5(1)(b) of Schedule 3,
become such on the first day of the month following that in which annual elections
are held and, subject to paragraph (10), shall remain a member until the end
of the month in which annual elections are held in the next following year.

(10) A person shall
cease to be a member of an inspectors', sergeants' or constables' branch board
if—
(a) he ceases to
hold the rank of inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be, constable;
(b) he ceases to
be a member of the police force or, in the case of a police cadet, ceases
to undergo training with a view to becoming such a member, or
(c) in the case
of a person elected in accordance with paragraph (3) or (4), he ceases to
belong to the division or specialist branch by which he was elected;but, where a person who is the secretary of a joint branch board
ceases to be a member of a branch board in accordance with sub-paragraph (c)
of this paragraph, he shall, by virtue of this paragraph and without prejudice
to the filling of the casual vacancy, become an additional member of that
board and shall remain such for the period for which he would have remained
a member but for the said sub-paragraph (c).
(11) Where a member
of a branch board has been chosen as such a central officer of the Federation
as is hereinafter mentioned he shall, by virtue of this paragraph and without
prejudice to the filling of the casual vacancy, become an additional member
of that board and, subject to paragraph (10), shall remain such until some
other person is chosen for the office in question.In this paragraph the reference to a central officer of the Federation
is a reference to—
(a) a person chosen
by the joint central committee as the chairman, secretary or treasurer thereof,
or
(b) a person chosen
by a central committee as the secretary thereof.
(12) A reference in
any provision of this Regulation to a person holding a rank in a police force
shall be construed as excluding a reference to such a person who is a member
of the first class of the police reserve.
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(1) Each branch board
may hold quarterly meetings, each lasting one day and, with the consent of
the chief officer of police, additional meetings of the branch board and meetings
of committees thereof.
(2) Each branch board
shall hold a quarterly meeting in the month following that in which annual
elections are held, which meeting is in these Regulations referred to as the
annual meeting, and where more than one meeting is held in that month the
first meeting so held shall be the annual meeting.
(3) In any branch of
the Federation the three or any two of the branch boards may, by agreement,
sit together as a joint branch board, either generally or for a special purpose.

(4) Without prejudice
to any arrangements for informal consultation, a branch board or joint branch
board may make written representations to the chief officer of police or the
police authority and, if it thinks fit, submit a copy thereof to the Secretary
of State; and in matters of importance a deputation may be appointed to make
oral representations to the chief officer of police or the police authority.

(5) Schedule 2 shall have effect in
relation to the proceedings of any branch board or joint branch board.
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(1) In each branch of
the Federation there shall be constituted, by the constables' branch board
and in accordance with this Regulation, a liaison committee to represent the
women members of the branch holding the rank of constable and consisting of
a representative from each division of the force to which such members belong
elected by the members in question belonging to that division.
(2) In each branch of
the Federation there may, with the consent of the chief officer of police,
be constituted by the sergeants' or constables' branch board, and in accordance
with this Regulation, such other liaison committees as appear to them expedient
having regard to the size and organisation of the police force.
(3) Members of a branch
who hold the rank of constable or are police cadets may be represented by
the same or separate liaison committees constituted under paragraph (2) but
members who hold the rank of sergeant may only be represented by a sergeants'
liaison committee.
(4) Subject to the preceding
provisions of this Regulation, a liaison committee constituted under paragraph
(1) or (2) shall be constituted in accordance with arrangements made by the
appropriate branch board with the approval of the chief officer of police
and any such arrangements—
(a) shall provide
that the committee shall consist of members of the branch who are not members
of the appropriate branch board, and
(b) without prejudice
to the generality of this paragraph, may apply, subject to appropriate modifications,
the provisions of Schedule 2
to the proceedings of the committee and the provisions of Schedule 3 to the committee.
(5) In each year, a
liaison committee constituted under paragraph (1) may hold two ordinary meetings
and a liaison committee constituted under paragraph (2) may hold four ordinary
meetings, each lasting half a day.
(6) A liaison committee
constituted under paragraph (1) or (2) may, with the consent of the chief
officer of police, hold additional meetings.
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(1) There shall be constituted,
in accordance with this Regulation, an inspectors', a sergeants' and a constables'
central conference.
(2) Each branch board,
at their annual meeting, shall elect from among the men holding the rank of
inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be, constable in the police force,
such number of delegates to the appropriate central conference as is provided
in Part I of Schedule 4:
Provided that a woman
member of a branch board shall not vote in an election held for the purposes
of this paragraph.
(3) The women members
of the inspectors', sergeants' and constables' branch boards for the branches
of the Federation in each of the regions mentioned in Schedule 5 shall elect, from among
the women holding the rank of inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be,
constable in a police force in the region in question, such number of delegates
to the appropriate central conference as is provided in Part II of Schedule 4.
(4) The women holding
the rank of inspector, segeant or, as the case may be, constable in the metropolitan
police force or the City of London police force shall elect, from among their
number, four delegates to the appropriate central conference.
(5) A person shall cease
to be a delegate to a central conference if he ceases to hold the rank of
inspector, sergeant or, as the case may be, constable or ceases to be a member
of the branch from which he is a delegate or, in the case of a woman, of a
branch in the region from which she is a delegate or, as the case may be,
of the metropolitan police force or the City of London police force.
(6) Where a member of
a branch board has been chosen as such a central officer of the Federation
as is mentioned in Regulation 6(11),
he shall, by virtue of this paragraph and without prejudice to the filling
of any casual vacancy among the delegates elected by that board to the appropriate
central conference, become an additional delegate from that board to that
conference and, subject to paragraph (5), shall remain such until some other
person is chosen for the office in question.
(7) Schedule 3 shall have effect in
relation to each of the central conferences.
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(1) Each central conference
shall meet each year at such times as the Secretary of State shall determine
after consultation with the joint central committee of the Federation and
shall hold an annual meeting lasting not more than three days or, with the
consent of the Secretary of State, four days.
(2) The three, or any
two, of the central conferences may, by agreement, sit together for the purpose
of discussing matters of common interest.
(3) The three central
conferences sitting together shall be known as the joint central conference.

(4) Schedule 2 shall have effect in
relation to the proceedings of each of the central conferences.
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(1) There shall be
constituted, in accordance with this Regulation, a conferences arrangements
committee charged with the making of arrangements for such meetings as are
referred to in Regulation 10.

(2) The conferences
arrangements committee shall consist of—
(a) three men holding
the rank of inspector,
(b) three men holding
the rank of sergeant,
(c) three men holding
the rank of constable, and
(d) one woman holding
the rank of inspector, sergeant or constable,not being members of a central committee; and of the three men
holding each rank, one shall be a London member, that is to say, a member
of the City of London or the metropolitan police force, and the other two
shall be provincial members, that is to say, members of other police forces.

(3) The men who are
members of the conferences arrangements committee shall be elected by the
men who are delegates to the appropriate central conference from the City
of London and metropolitan police forces, in the case of the London members,
or by the men who are such delegates from other forces, in the case of the
provincial members; and the woman member of the said committee shall be elected
by the delegates to the joint central conference who are women.
(4) A person shall
cease to be a member of the conferences arrangements committee on ceasing
to be qualified for membership by reason of his ceasing to hold a particular
rank or to be a member of a particular police force or by reason of his becoming
a member of a central committee.
(5) The conferences
arrangements committee may, each year, hold four ordinary meetings each lasting
one day, and such additional meetings as appear to them necessary.
(6) Any expenses incurred
by the conferences arrangements committee with the approval of the joint central
committee shall be defrayed by the joint central committee.
(7) Notwithstanding
anything in Regulation 9,
each member of the conferences arrangements committee shall, by virtue of
this paragraph, be an additional delegate to the appropriate central conference
and on a person becoming a member of the committee and such an additional
delegate he shall, if he has been elected a delegate to the conference under Regulation 9, cease to be a delegate
so elected.
(8) Schedule 2 shall have effect in
relation to the proceedings of the conferences arrangements committee and Schedule 3 shall have effect in
relation to that committee.
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(1) There shall be
constituted, in accordance with this Regulation, an inspectors', a sergeants'
and a constables' central committee of the Federation.
(2) Each central committee
shall be elected by the delegates to the inspectors', sergeants' or, as the
case may be, constables' central conference in the manner following:—

(a) two members
shall be elected by the men who are delegates from the metropolitan police
force or the City of London police force;
(b) one member
shall be elected in respect of each region mentioned in Schedule 5 by the men who are
delegates from police forces in the region in question, and
(c) one member
shall be elected by the delegates who are women, in each case, from among
their number.
(3) Schedule 3 shall have effect in
relation to each of the central committees.
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(1) Each central committee
may hold—
(a) an ordinary
meeting once in two months, each meeting lasting not more than three days;

(b) an ordinary
meeting once a year with the corresponding central committee of the Scottish
Police Federation, lasting not more than two days, and
(c) additional
meetings called with the consent of the Secretary of State.
(2) The three or any
two of the central committees may, by agreement, sit together as a joint committee
either for all purposes of common interest or for any special purpose.
(3) The three central
committees shall, at the request of the Secretary of State, sit together as
a joint committee for the purpose of considering any question referred to
them by him.
(4) The three central
committees sitting together shall be known as the joint central committee
of the Federation.
(5) A central committee,
the joint central committee or a joint committee of any two central committees
may make written representations to the Secretary of State and, in matters
of importance, a deputation may be appointed to make oral representations
to him.
(6) Schedule 2 shall have effect in
relation to the proceedings of each central committee, the joint central committee
and a joint committee of any two central committees.
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(1) In each of the
regions mentioned in Schedule 5
two women's conferences, each lasting not more than one day, may be held each
year in accordance with arrangements made by the joint central committee of
the Federation.
(2) The women members
of all the branch boards of the Federation in the region in question shall
be delegates to a conference held under this Regulation.
(3) Schedule 2 shall have effect in
relation to the proceedings of a women's regional conference.
PART III
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(1) The Federation
shall make such contribution to the police authority maintaining the police
force of which the secretary of the joint central committee is a member, in
respect of the pay, pension or allowances payable to or in respect of him,
as may be agreed between the joint central committee and the police authority
or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.

(2) The Regulations
for the time being in force under—
(a) section 33
of the Police
Act 1964., in so far as they relate to leave,
pay and allowances, and
(b) the Police Pensions Act 1948,
except in so far as they relate to compulsory retirement on account of age,
shall have effect in relation to the secretary of the joint central
committee as if he held the rank of chief inspector in the City of London
police force so, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
as transferring any rights or liabilities to the police authority maintaining
that force.
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(1) The Federation
may raise funds by—
(a) the collection
of voluntary subscription from the members thereof;
(b) the acceptance
of donations from such members, from central police officers, reversionary
members of home police forces or servicemen within the meaning of the regulations
from time to time in force under the Police Pensions Act 1948
or from persons with a contingent right of reversion to a home police force
under section 2
of the Police
Act 1969, or
(c) the sale of
periodicals and other articles,but not otherwise.
(2) Voluntary subscriptions
shall be collected by the appropriate branch boards and the normal amount
of such subscriptions (including additional subscriptions) shall be determined
by the joint central committee, subject to the approval of the joint central
conference.
(3) Out of the sum
collected by way of subscriptions in each year a branch board shall pay to
the appropriate central committee such sum in respect of each subscribing
member as the joint central committee shall have determined should be paid
by branch boards in that year but, subject to the next following paragraph,
the balance of the sum so collected shall be retained by the branch board.

(4) If at the end
of any year the funds held by a branch board exceed—
(a) £200,
where the number of subscribing members is less than a hundred;
(b) £2 for
each subscribing member, where the number of such members is a hundred or
more but less than five hundred or, in the case of the metropolitan police
force, a hundred or more but less than four thousand;
(c) £1,000
or, in the metropolitan police force £4,000, where the number of subscribing
members is five hundred or more or, as the case may be, four thousand or more,
the board shall pay the excess to the appropriate central committee
and, after making such payment, may pay such sum as they think fit to the
joint branch board.
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(1) There shall be
paid to the joint central committee, out of Federation funds held by the central
committees, such sums as the joint central committee determine.
(2) Subject to Regulation 19 any expenses incurred
by or for the purposes of the joint central committee shall be defrayed out
of Federation funds held by that committee except that, to the extent that
the Secretary of State has agreed with the joint central committee that such
expenses should be defrayed by him, they shall be so defrayed.
18 

(1) This Regulation
shall have effect in relation to every branch board or joint branch board,
each central committee and the joint central committee.
(2) Every such board
and committee shall, in relation to Federation funds held by the board or
committee in question, keep accounts showing all monies received or paid out
and shall cause the accounts for each year to be audited by an independent
auditor.
(3) The independent
auditor shall be a person who is a member, or a firm all of the partners wherein
are members, of one or more of the following bodies, that is to say:—

(a) the Institute
of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales;
(b) the Institute
of Chartered Accountants in Scotland;
(c) the Association
of Certified and Corporate Accountants;
(d) the Institute
of Chartered Accounts in Ireland;
(e) 
any other body of accountants established in the United Kingdom and for the
time being recognised for the purposes of section 161(1)(b) of the Companies Act 1948.
by the Board of Trade.
(4) After the end
of each year a summary of the accounts for that year, together with a copy
of the independent auditor's report thereon, shall—
(a) in the case
of the accounts of a branch board or joint branch board, be made available
to the subscribing members and sent to the chief officer of police and the
appropriate central committee or, as the case may be, the joint central committee
which shall, if so requested in a particular case by the Secretary of State,
transmit copies to him;
(b) in the case
of the accounts of a central committee or the joint central committee, be
made available to the appropriate central conference or, as the case may be,
the joint central conference, sent to the Secretary of State and published,
in a manner approved by the committee in question, to members of the Federation.

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(1) Federation funds
shall not without the consent of the Secretary of State be used otherwise
than for the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (4) and, notwithstanding
anything in those paragraphs, shall not be used—
(a) to promote
directly or indirectly a person's candidature in a parliamentary or local
government election;
(b) to contribute
to the funds of a trade union, political party or other body or organisation
not connected with the police service or its welfare, or
(c) in connection
with the defence of a member or former member of the Federation against whom
civil, criminal or disciplinary proceedings are brought, except as authorised
by paragraph (4)(h).
(2) Subject as aforesaid
the joint central committee shall, subject to the approval of the joint central
conference, determine the purposes for which Federation funds held by the
branch boards or joint branch boards and by the central committees, respectively,
may be used.
(3) Federation funds
may be used to defray expenses lawfully incurred for the purpose specified
in section 44(1) of the Police Act 1964,
namely for the purpose of representing members of the police forces and police
cadets in England and Wales in all matters affecting their welfare and efficiency,
other than questions of discipline and promotion affecting individuals.
(4) Without prejudice
to the generality of the preceding paragraph, Federation funds may be used
to defray—
(a) expenses arising
under these Regulations or arising out of anything done in accordance therewith;

(b) the administrative
expenses of the Federation, including expenses in connection with the provision
of office accommodation and the remuneration of persons outside the police
service employed or consulted in an administrative, professional or advisory
capacity;
(c) the payment
of honoraria to members of the central committees and of branch boards;
(d) the payment
of subsistence and similar allowances to such members as aforesaid and to
delegates to conferences held in accordance with these Regulations in respect
of expenses incurred by them as such members and delegates;
(e) expenses in
connection with the publication and distribution of reports and other documents,
including a journal (whether or not a charge is made therefor) and the purchase
of publications for use by branch boards and the central committees;
(f) expenses incurred
for benevolent or charitable purposes connected with the police service or
its welfare;
(g) expenses lawfully
incurred in connection with a claim made by a member or former member of the
Federation, his widow or child (including legal proceedings arising therefrom)
where the claim relates to—
(i) a question
of general principle or importance which is of special concern to the members
of the Federation or a substantial class thereof,
(ii) the
emoluments of a member of the Federation or the pension or other award payable
to or in respect of a former member of the Federation,
(iii) an
injury or disease alleged to have been received or contracted by a member
of the Federation, or
(iv) the
compulsory retirement of a member of a police force or of a police cadet,
otherwise than as an alternative to dismissal, and
(h) legal charges
incurred by a member or former member of the Federation or by a central police
officer, within the meaning of the regulations from time to time in force
under the Police Pensions Act 1948,
entitled at the end of his period of central service to revert to his police
force in a rank below that of superintendent, in connection with criminal
proceedings brought against him for an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1960
or any other enactment relating to road traffic, other than an offence under section 6 or 11 of the Road Traffic Act 1960
or section 12
of the Licensing
Act 1872 (driving or being in charge when impaired
by drink or drugs), section 1, 2 or 3
of the Road
Safety Act 1967 (driving etc. with an undue
proportion of alcohol in the blood) or section 12 of the Theft Act 1968
(taking a motor vehicle or other conveyance without authority) committed in,
or founded upon something done in, the performance or purported performance
of his duties as a member of a police force (including an offence committed
on any occasion in respect of which an allowance is payable under regulations
made under section 33
of the Police
Act 1964 for the use of a motor vehicle or
bicycle owned by the member) or as a police cadet, or as such a central police
officer, as the case may be.
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(1) Federation property
and funds held by a branch board or joint branch board shall be vested in
not more than three trustees appointed in such manner as may be determined
by the board in question.
(2) Federation property
and funds held by a central committee or the joint central committee shall
be vested in three trustees appointed by the committee in question.
(3) Where any Federation
funds are vested in trustees in accordance with this Regulation those trustees
shall not invest the funds or vary any investment except in pursuance of the
powers of investment conferred on trustees generally by the Trustee Investment Act 1961
and in accordance with the directions of the appropriate board or committee.

(4) Where any Federation
property or funds are vested in three trustees in accordance with this Regulation,
any two of those trustees shall have the like powers to deal with that property
or those funds as they would have had if they had been the sole trustees thereof.

James Callaghan
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office, Whitehall
11th December 1969
SCHEDULE 1


Regulations References
The Police Federation Regulations
1965 S.I. 1965/619 (1965 I, p. 1928).
The Police Federation (Amendment)
Regulations 1966 S.I. 1966/542 (1966 II, p. 1119).
The Police Federation (Amendment)
Regulations 1967 S.I. 1967/94 (1967 I, p. 199).
The Police Federation (Amendment)
Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/24 (1968 I, p. 29).
The Police Federation (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 1968 S.I. 1968/2044 (1968 III, p. 5513).
SCHEDULE 2
1 
This Schedule shall have
effect in relation to the proceedings of the following bodies (hereafter in
this Schedule referred to as “specified bodies”)—
 any branch meeting, including a meeting of members belonging
to a particular division or specialist branch of a police force;
 any branch board or joint branch board;
 each central conference;
 the conferences arrangements committee;
 each central committee, the joint central committee and a
joint committee of any two central committees;
 any women's regional conference.
2 
Each specified body shall choose its chairman
and secretary from among its members.
3 
The chairman at any meeting of a specified body
shall have a second or casting vote.
4 
Subject as aforesaid, each specified body shall
regulate its own procedure and may provide for the appointment of committees
and sub-committees and for their procedure.
5 
Where a police authority can make available
to a specified body accommodation in premises provided for police purposes,
the specified body shall be under no obligation to make payment for the use
of such accommodation.
SCHEDULE 3
1 
This Schedule shall apply
in relation to the following bodies (hereafter in this Schedule referred to
as 
“specified bodies”):—
 any branch board;
 each central conference;
 the conferences arrangement committee;
 each central committee.
2 
An election to a specified body shall be by
secret ballot.
3 
At any such election each person qualified to
take part therein shall be entitled to give the like number of votes as there
are vacancies to be filled but shall not give more than one vote for any one
candidate.
4 
Where at any such election an equality of votes
is found to exist between any candidates and the addition of a vote would
entitle any of those candidates to be declared elected, the decision between
those candidates shall be reached by lot and the candidate on whom the lot
falls shall be declared elected.
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(1) Subject to the provisions
of these Regulations, rules may be made by the appropriate rule-making body
mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) as respects—
(a) the conduct of
elections to a specified body, and
(b) the circumstances
and manner in which casual vacancies thereon are to be filled, whether the
vacancy occurs as a result of the death or resignation of a person or in consequence
of any provision of these Regulations.
(2) The appropriate rule-making
body shall be—
(a) in relation to
a branch board, that board;
(b) in relation to
the election of male delegates to a central conference by a particular branch
board and to casual vacancies among those delegates, that board;
(c) in relation to
the election of female delegates to a central conference and casual vacancies
among those delegates, the joint central committee;
(d) in relation to
the conferences arrangements committee, the joint central conference;
(e) in relation to
the election of members of a central committee by a central conference and
casual vacancies among those members, that central conference.
SCHEDULE 4
PART I
1 

(1) Except in
the metropolitan police force, there shall be elected to the appropriate central
conference under Regulation 9(2),
by each inspectors', sergeants' and constables' branch board, two delegates
together with a further delegate for each five hundred men included in the
authorised establishment.
(2) In this
paragraph the reference to the authorised establishment for a police force
is a reference to the number of men of all ranks included in the authorised
establishment.
2 
In the metropolitan police force the inspectors',
sergeants' and constables' branch boards shall, under Regulation 9(2), each elect to
the appropriate central conference—
(a) two delegates
from each division;
(b) five delegates
from the criminal investigation department, and
(c) six delegates
from A, B and D departments.
PART II
1 
The number of delegates to be elected, under Regulation 9(3), by women members
of inspectors', sergeants' or constables' branch boards in a region to the
appropriate central conference shall be determined by reference to the aggregate
authorised establishment for the police forces in the region, as hereafter
in this Part of this Schedule provided.
2 
Where the aggregate authorised establishment
is less than two hundred women, there shall be one delegate.
3 
Where the aggregate authorised establishment
is two hundred women or more, there shall be two delegates with a further
delegate for each five hundred women included in the aggregate authorised
establishment.
4 
In this Part of this Schedule a reference to
the authorised establishment for a police force is a reference to the number
of women of all ranks included in the authorised establishment.
SCHEDULE 5

For the purposes of these Regulations
there shall be the following seven regions:—
(a) No. 1 (North-West) Region, comprising
the combined police areas known as the Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpool
and Bootle and Manchester and Salford police areas;
(b) No. 2 (North-East) Region, comprising
the county boroughs of Bradford, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds and Teesside and
the combined police areas known as the Durham, Northumberland, Sheffield and
Rotherham, York and North-East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire police areas;

(c) No. 3 (Midlands) Region, comprising the
county borough of Birmingham and the combined police areas known as the Staffordshire
County and Stoke-on-Trent, Warwickshire and Coventry, West Mercia and West
Midlands police areas;
(d) No. 4 (Eastern) Region, comprising the
combined police areas known as the Derby county and borough, Leicester and
Rutland, Lincolnshire, Northampton and County, Mid-Anglia and Suffolk police
areas, the Norfolk joint police area and the Nottinghamshire combined police
area;
(e) No. 5 (South-East) Region, comprising
the counties of Hertfordshire and Surrey and the combined police areas known
as the Bedfordshire and Luton, Hampshire, Kent, Sussex and Thames Valley police
areas and the Essex and Southend-on-Sea joint police area;
(f) No. 6 (South-West) Region, comprising
the counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, the county borough of Bristol
and the combined police areas known as the Devon and Cornwall, Dorset and
Bournemouth and Somerset and Bath police areas.
(g) No. 7 (Wales) Region, comprising the
combined police areas known as the Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, Gwynedd and South Wales
police areas.
