Conditions Of Service - Determinations
Annex D
Regulation
14
RETIREMENT
1) Without prejudice to the following provisions:
a) The Police Pensions Regulations relating to compulsory retirement
b) The Conduct Regulations relating to resignation as an alternative
to
dismissal
c) Sections 4(4)(d) to (7) and 5(4) of the Police (Scotland) Act relating
to
retirement in the interests of efficiency or effectiveness:
and subject to paragraph (2), a member of a police force may retire
only if the member has given to the chief constable one month's written
notice of the member’s intention to retire or such shorter notice
as may have been accepted by the chief constable:
Provided that this determination shall not affect the operation of
any retiral tendered in the circumstances specified in regulation
13(4) of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
2) In the case of a chief constable, deputy chief constable or assistant
chief constable, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if-
a) for "one month's" there were substituted "three
months' "; and
b) for "chief constable" there were substituted "police
authority".