# The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2017, Regulation 6: General functions of the Director General under these Regulations

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(1) The Director General must—
(a) secure the maintenance by the Director General ..., and by the Chief Executive, of suitable arrangements with respect to the matters mentioned in paragraph (2);
(b) keep under review all arrangements maintained with respect to those matters;
(c) secure that arrangements maintained with respect to those matters—
(i) comply with the requirements of the provisions of these Regulations;
(ii) are efficient and effective; and
(iii) contain and manifest an appropriate degree of independence;
(d) secure that public confidence is established and maintained in the existence of suitable arrangements with respect to those matters and with the operation of the arrangements that are in fact maintained with respect to those matters; and
(e) make such recommendations, and give such advice, for the modification of the arrangements maintained with respect to those matters as appear, from the carrying out by the Director General of the Director General’s other functions, to be necessary or desirable.
(2) Those matters are—
(a) the handling of complaints made about the conduct of a LAPO;
(b) the recording of matters from which it appears that there may have been conduct by a LAPO which constitutes or involves the commission of a criminal offence or behaviour justifying disciplinary proceedings;
(c) the recording of matters from which it appears that a person has died or suffered serious injury during, or following, contact with a LAPO; and
(d) the manner in which any such complaints or any such matters as are mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) are investigated or otherwise handled and dealt with.
(3) The Director General must—
(a) exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred on the Director General by the following provisions of these Regulations in the manner that the Director General considers best calculated for the purpose of securing the proper carrying out of the Director General’s functions under paragraph (1); and
(b) secure that arrangements exist which are conducive to, and facilitate, the reporting of misconduct by LAPOs.
(3A) In carrying out functions under these Regulations the Director General must have regard to any advice provided to the Director General by the Office (see regulation 6A(1)(a))
(4) Subject to the other provisions of these Regulations, the Director General may do anything which appears to the Director General to be calculated to facilitate, or is incidental or conducive to, the carrying out of the Director General’s functions under these Regulations.
(5) The IOPC may, in connection with the making of any recommendation or the giving of any advice to any person for the purpose of carrying out its functions under paragraph (1)(c), (d) or (e), impose any such charge on that person for anything done by the Director General for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of the Director General’s function as the Director General thinks fit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/521/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-and-labour-abuse-authority-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2017/regulation-6
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