{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-39.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/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Combining and splitting investigations",
  "text": "(1) Where the chief executive is carrying out an investigation on the chief executive’s own behalf, the chief executive may—\n(a) combine that investigation with another such investigation; or\n(b) split that investigation into two or more such separate investigations,\nif the chief executive considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where the Director General is directing an investigation 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 the Director General considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.\n(3) The Director General must consult the chief executive before taking any action under paragraph (2) in relation to an investigation directed by the Director General.\n(4) Nothing in this regulation prevents the Director General from determining—\n(a) that where an investigation is split into two or more separate investigations, those investigations may take different forms; or\n(b) that two or more separate investigations which take different forms (including an investigation being carried out by the chief executive on the chief executive’s own behalf) may be combined into a single investigation.",
  "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/39",
    "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."
}