{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-55.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/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Duty to consider submissions from person whose conduct is being investigated",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to—\n(a) an investigation of a complaint that has been certified under regulation 54(1) as one subject to special requirements; or\n(b) an investigation of a recordable conduct matter.\n(2) If before the expiry of the appropriate time limit notified in pursuance of regulation 54(8)—\n(a) the person concerned provides the person investigating the complaint or matter or, in the case of an investigation by a designated person under regulation 45 the Director General, with a relevant statement or a relevant document; or\n(b) a contractor friend provides that person with a relevant document,\nthat person must consider the statement or document.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55(2)(a) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(19) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 55 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/55",
    "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."
}