8.
Business Interests
(1) A constable shall not have a business
interest without the consent of-
(a) the police authority in the case of a senior officer;
(b) the chief constable in the case of any such other constable, provided
that, in the case of any such other constable in whose case the chief
constable has an interest in otherwise than as chief constable, the
constable shall if either the constable or the chief constable so
elect, obtain the consent of the chief constable of such other police
force as may be determined.
(2) If a constable acquires or is likely to acquire, or in the case
of a constable appointed to the office of chief constable or promoted
to the rank of deputy chief constable or assistant chief constable
has, a business interest he shall forthwith give written notice of
that interest to the chief constable, or, as the case may be, the
police authority unless that constable has previously disclosed that
interest to that authority.
(3) A person applying for appointment to a police force, other than
a person referred to in paragraph (4), shall give written notice to
the chief constable of any business interest.
(4) A person applying for appointment to the office of chief constable,
deputy chief constable, or assistant chief constable in a police force
shall give written notice to the police authority responsible for
the appointment of any business interest which that constable has
or is likely to acquire after appointment.
(5) A person shall be regarded as having a business interest if-
(a) that person carries on any business or holds any office of employment
for hire or gain (otherwise than as a constable); or
(b) that person resides at any premises where any member of that person's
family keeps a shop or carries on any like business; or
(c) that person holds, or any member of that person's family living
with that person holds, any licence, certificate or permit granted
in pursuance of the laws relating to liquor licensing or betting and
gaming or regulating places of public entertainment in the police
area of the force of which that person is a constable to which that
person is applying for appointment or has any pecuniary interest in
such licence, certificate of permit; or
(d) that person's spouse (not being separated from that person) keeps
a shop or carries on any like business in the police area of the force
of which that person is a constable or to which that person is applying
for appointment.
(6) For the purposes of this regulation, the expression "member
of that person's family" shall include parent, son, daughter,
brother, sister or spouse (not being separated from that person).
