Police (Scotland) Act 1967

23 Chief constable of police force affected by amalgamation scheme

(1) The chief constable of a police force shall not be transferred by an amalgamation scheme to the police force established by the scheme unless he is appointed as the first chief constable of that force or unless before the date when the scheme comes into operation he agrees to join that force in some other capacity.

(2) A chief constable who is not transferred as aforesaid shall be deemed to have retired from his police force immediately before the date when the scheme came into operation, and during the period of three months beginning with the said date (or, if within those three months he joins the police force established by the scheme, during the period beginning with the said date and ending with the day before the date on which he joins that force) he shall be entitled to be paid by the joint police committee a salary and emoluments at the same rate as the salary and emoluments which he would have been entitled to receive had he continued to be the chief constable of his police force.