{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-56.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/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Interview of person whose conduct is being investigated",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to an investigation to which regulation 55(1)(a) or (b) applies.\n(2) Where the person concerned is required for interview as part of—\n(a) an investigation under regulation 45, the Director General shall;\n(b) an investigation under regulation 42, 43 or 44, the investigator shall;\nif reasonably practicable, agree a date and time for the interview with the person concerned.\n(3) Where no date and time is agreed under paragraph (2), the investigator or, in the case of an investigation by a designated person under regulation 45 who is not the Director General, the Director General shall specify a date and time for the interview.\n(4) Where a date and time is specified under paragraph (3) and—\n(a) the person concerned or that person’s contractor friend will not be available at that time; and\n(b) the person concerned proposes an alternative time which satisfies paragraph (5),\nthe interview shall be postponed to the time proposed by the person concerned.\n(5) An alternative time must—\n(a) be reasonable; and\n(b) fall before the end of the period of 5 working days beginning with the first working day after the day specified by the investigator or, in the case of an investigation by a designated person under regulation 45 who is not the Director General, the Director General.\n(6) The person concerned shall be given written notice of the date, time and place of the interview.\n(7) The investigator or, in the case of an investigation by a designated person under regulation 45 who is not the Director General, the Director General shall, in advance of the interview, provide the person concerned with such information as the investigator or, in the case of an investigation by a designated person under regulation 45 who is not the Director General, the Director General considers appropriate in the circumstances of the case to enable the person concerned to prepare for the interview.\n(8) The person concerned shall attend the interview.\n(9) A contractor friend may not answer any questions asked of the person concerned during the interview.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 56(2) substituted (8.1.2018) by virtue of The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(20)(a)(i)(ii) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 56 inserted (8.1.2018) by virtue of The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(20)(b) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 56 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/56",
    "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."
}