{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-and-labour-abuse-authority-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2017/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-and-labour-abuse-authority-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2017/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/521",
  "legislation_title": "The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-and-labour-abuse-authority-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Duties to preserve evidence relating to complaints",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a complaint is made to the Chief Executive; or\n(b) the Chief Executive becomes aware that a complaint has been made to the Director General,\nthe Chief Executive must take all such steps as appear to be appropriate for the purposes of these Regulations for obtaining and preserving evidence relating to the conduct complained of.\n(2) The Chief Executive’s duty under paragraph (1) must be performed as soon as practicable after the complaint is made or, as the case may be, the Chief Executive becomes aware of it.\n(3) After that, the Chief Executive must, until satisfied that it is no longer necessary to do so, continue to take the steps which from time to time appear to the Chief Executive to be appropriate for the purposes of these Regulations for obtaining and preserving evidence relating to the conduct complained of.\n(4) The Chief Executive must take all such specific steps for obtaining or preserving evidence relating to any conduct that is the subject matter of a complaint as the Chief Executive may be directed to take for the purposes of this regulation by the Director General.",
  "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), regs. 1, 36(2)(a) (with regs. 36(4), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 30.4.2017, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/521/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:32.410325+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."
}