{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-conduct-regulations-2008/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-conduct-regulations-2008/regulation-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110845265",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-conduct-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Procedure on receipt of notice",
  "text": "(1) Before the end of 7 working days beginning with the first working day after the written notice given to the officer concerned under regulation 43(1), the officer concerned shall provide to the appropriate authority—\n(a) written notice of whether or not he accepts that his conduct amounts to gross misconduct;\n(b) where he accepts that his conduct amounts to gross misconduct, any written submission he wishes to make in mitigation;\n(c) where he does not accept that his conduct amounts to gross misconduct, written notice of—\n(i) the allegations he disputes and his account of the relevant events; and\n(ii) any arguments on points of law he wishes to be considered by the person or persons conducting the special case hearing.\n(2) Within the same time period, the officer concerned shall provide the appropriate authority with a copy of any document he intends to rely on at the hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110845265/regulation/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:51.018561+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}