{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-33.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/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Duties of Director General on references under regulation 31 or DSI matters treated as having been referred under regulation 32",
  "text": "(1) The Director General must, in the case of every DSI matter referred to the Director General by the chief executive or treated as having been referred under regulation 32, determine whether or not it is necessary for the matter to be investigated.\n(2) Where the Director General determines under this regulation that it is not necessary for a DSI matter to be investigated—\n(a) in a case where the DSI matter is already being investigated by the chief executive on the chief executive’s own behalf, and notwithstanding the Director General’s determination, the Director General must refer the matter back to the chief executive for the investigation to be completed;\n(b) in any other case, the Director General may, if the Director General thinks fit, refer the matter back to the chief executive to be dealt with by the chief executive in such manner (if any) as the chief executive may determine.",
  "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/33",
    "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."
}