{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/431",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Police Complaints Commission (Complaints and Misconduct) (Contractors) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Duties of the Director General on references under regulation 22",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the Director General in the case of every complaint referred to the Director General by the appropriate authority, to determine whether or not it is necessary for the complaint to be investigated.\n(2) Where the Director General determines under this regulation that it is not necessary for a complaint to be investigated, the Director General may, if the Director General thinks fit, refer the complaint back to the appropriate authority to be dealt with by that authority in accordance with regulation 24.\n(3) Where the Director General refers a complaint back under paragraph (2), the Director General shall give a notification of the making of the reference back—\n(a) to the complainant; and\n(b) except in a case where it appears to the Director General that to do so might prejudice a possible future investigation of the complaint, to the person complained against.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (except in reg. 1) (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(2)(a) (with regs. 33(3), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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, 33(2)(c) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 8.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/431/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:41.057114+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."
}