17AAllowance for member having special qualifications

17A Allowance for member having special qualifications (1) Subject to this section, the Commissioner may, where he is of the opinion that a member has special skills and qualifications: (a) suitable for use in the Police Force; and (b) which are being used by the member in the performance of his duties as a member, but that the remuneration and allowances applicable to the rank held by that member do not adequately compensate that member for those special skills and qualifications, determine, subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit, that that member shall be paid, on and from the date specified in the determination, in addition to that remuneration and those allowances, an allowance, not exceeding the prescribed amount, sufficient, in the opinion of the Commissioner, to adequately compensate that member for those special skills and qualifications, and that member shall, accordingly, be paid the allowance. (2) Without limiting the generality of the Commissioner's power under subsection (1), the terms and conditions referred to in that subsection may specify that the allowance payable in pursuance of a determination under that subsection to a member shall cease to be paid to him where: (a) his special skills and qualifications which gave rise to the determination are no longer being used by him in the performance of his duties as a member; or (b) he is promoted within the Police Force. (3) Where a member the subject of a determination under subsection (1) is, after the determination is made, promoted within the Police Force and the Commissioner has not made that determination subject to the condition specified in subsection (2)(b), the Commissioner shall review that determination and, after that review, having regard to: (a) whether the special skills and qualifications of the member which gave rise to that determination are still being used by him in the duties carried out by him as a member with the rank held by him after his promotion; and (b) the difference between the remuneration and allowances applicable to the rank held by him immediately before his promotion and the remuneration and allowances from time to time applicable to the rank held by him after his promotion, Police Administration Act 1978 19 may: (c) vary the allowance payable in pursuance of that determination; or (d) revoke that determination, with effect on and from that promotion.