Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st April 2015.

Amendments to the Police (Promotion) Regulations 1996

2.The Police (Promotion) Regulations 1996( 3 ) are amended as follows.

3. In regulation 3(7), for “(1) and (2)” substitute “(1), (2), (2A) and (2B)”.

4. In regulation 5(3)—

(a) after “completing” insert “, or has completed,”;

(b) after “Part II” omit “B”.

5. In regulation 6(2), after “Part II” omit “B”.

6. In Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1), for “examinations board” substitute “College of Policing”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for “either Part IIA, consisting of practical tests, or Part IIB”, substitute “Part II”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (2A), after “Part II” omit “B”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (3), for “Parts I and IIA” substitute “Part I”;

(b) for paragraph 2, substitute—

“ 2. The College of Policing shall determine the standard to be achieved by a candidate in order to obtain a pass in any part of the qualifying assessments. ” ;

(c) for paragraph 3, substitute—

“ 3. The College of Policing shall—

(a) set and mark the written paper referred to in paragraph 1(2); and

(b) set the criteria against which Part II is to be assessed. ” ;

(d) in paragraph 4—

(i) for “examinations board” substitute “College of Policing”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for “each Part” substitute “Part I”;

(e) in paragraph 5—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (1);

(ii) in sub-paragraph (1A), omit “in a force using the Part IIB assessment process”;

(iii) omit sub-paragraph (3);

(iv) in sub-paragraph (3A), omit “using the Part IIB assessment process”;

(v) in sub-paragraph (5), for “examinations board” substitute “College of Policing”;

(vi) omit sub-paragraph (6);

(vii) in sub-paragraph (7), after “Part II” omit “B”;

(f) in paragraph 6—

(i) for each of the three references to “examinations board” substitute “College of Policing”;

(ii) for each of the two references to “their” substitute “its”.

7. In Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 3, after condition C(4) insert “C(5) the pass must have been obtained before 1st April 2015.”;

(b) after the entry numbered 11 in the table, insert the following entry—