{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-52.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/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which an investigation or other procedure may be suspended",
  "text": "(1) The Director General may suspend any investigation or other procedure under these Regulations which would, if it were to continue, prejudice any criminal investigation or proceedings.\n(2) An appropriate authority may, subject to paragraph (3), suspend any investigation or other procedure under these Regulations which would, if it were to continue, prejudice any criminal investigation or proceedings.\n(3) The Director General may direct that any investigation or other procedure under these Regulations which is liable to be suspended under paragraph (2) shall continue if the Director General is of the view that it is in the public interest to make such a direction.\n(4) The Director General shall consult the appropriate authority before making such a direction.",
  "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. 52 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/52",
    "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."
}