Section 23
Section 23
(1)
The Chief Police Officer may award, to mem
bers of the rank and file, good conduct allowances in accord
ance with the foilowing
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(a)
The first good conduct allowance of two dollars per month may be awarded for three years'
service without incurring a major punishment.
(For the purpose of this regulation, "major punishment"
means reduction in rank, forfeiture of three or more days'
payor an equivalent Court fine, confinement to barracks for fourteen days, or compulsory performance of fourteen extra duties or drills).
(b)
The second good conduct allowance of two dollars per month may be awarded if the first good conduct allowance has been held without interruption for three years.
(c)
The third good conduct allowance of two dollars per month may be awarded if the first and second good conduct allowances have each been held for three years.
(2)
The payment of good conduct allowances shall cease from the date of promotion to the Inspectorate.
(3)
One good conduct allowance shall be forfeited if the holder receives a major punishment, or if the recipient commits a disciplinary offence which, in the opinion of the
Chief Police Officer, merits that forfeiture.
(4)
A good conduct allowance so forfeited may be re
stored after one year if no disciplinary offence has been committed during that period.
(5)
Where two or three good conduct allowances have been forfeited, they may, if no major punishment is incurred, be restored for successive periods of one year.
(6)
A good conduct allowance so forfeited may, at any time, be restored by the Chief Police Officer as a reward for gallant conduct, or for exceptionally good work.
(7)
The granting or regranting of a good conduct al
lowance shall date from the first day of the month following that in which the good conduct allowance was awarded or restored or, where the good conduct allowance was awarded or restored on the first day of a month, it shall take effect from that date.
(8)
Where a good conduct allowance is forfeited on or before the fifteenth day of a month, the good conduct al
lowance shall cease from the first day of that month;
or, where forfeited subsequent to the fifteenth day of a month,
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the good conduct allowance shall cease from the first day of the following month.