{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/301",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Crime Officers (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Power of Director General to treat conduct matters as having been referred",
  "text": "(1) The Director General may treat a conduct matter that comes to the Director General’s attention otherwise than by having been referred to the Director General under regulation 26 as having been so referred.\n(2) Where the Director General treats a conduct matter as having been referred to the Director General—\n(a) regulations 18, 19 and 26 do not apply, or cease to apply, in relation to the matter except to the extent provided for by regulation 26(6); and\n(b) regulations 28 and 36 apply in relation to the matter as if it had been referred to the Director General by the chief executive under regulation 26.\n(3) The Director General must notify the following that the Director General is treating a conduct matter as having been referred to the Director General—\n(a) the chief executive;\n(b) except in a case where it appears to the Director General that to do so might prejudice an investigation of the matter (whether an existing investigation or a possible future one), the person to whose conduct the matter relates.\n(4) Where the chief executive receives a notification under paragraph (3) in respect of a conduct matter and the matter has not yet been recorded, the chief executive must record the matter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/301/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:03.915731+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."
}