{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/regulation-51.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/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Special procedure: FSA friend",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where the person investigating a complaint or matter has given the person concerned a notice under regulation 50.\n(2) The person concerned may choose—\n(a) an officer or a member of the FSA’s staff;\n(b) an official of a trade union,\nwho is not otherwise involved in the matter to act as their FSA friend.\n(3) An FSA friend may—\n(a) advise the person concerned throughout proceedings under these Regulations;\n(b) provide any relevant statement or relevant document to the person investigating;\n(c) accompany the person concerned to any interview of that person conducted by the person investigating; and\n(d) make representations to the Director General concerning any aspect of the proceedings under these Regulations.\n(4) Where an FSA friend is an officer or a member of the FSA’s staff, the chief executive must permit the FSA friend to use a reasonable amount of their contractual working time for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (3).",
  "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/51",
    "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."
}