{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elected-local-policing-bodies-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2012/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elected-local-policing-bodies-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2012/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elected-local-policing-bodies-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Combining and splitting investigations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where the Director General is managing or carrying out an investigation the Director General may—\n(a) combine that investigation with another investigation; or\n(b) split that investigation into two or more separate investigations,\nif it considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.\n(2) The Director General shall not take any action under paragraph (1) in relation to an investigation managed by the Director General under regulation 19 except after consulting the chief officer of police of the police force carrying out the investigation.\n(3) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Director General from determining that—\n(a) where an investigation is split into two or more separate investigations, those investigations may take different forms;\n(b) two or more separate investigations which take different forms may be combined into a single investigation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 21(2)(a) (with regs. 21(3), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 21(2)(c) (with regs. 21(3), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 16.1.2012, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/62/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:45:05.116754+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."
}