{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-complaints-and-misconduct-contractors-regulations-2015/regulation-59",
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  "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/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Interview of the contractor during certain investigations",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to an investigation of a complaint, recordable conduct matter or DSI matter which—\n(a) is carried out by the appropriate authority under the management of the Director General; or\n(b) is carried out by a person designated under regulation 45.\n(2) Paragraph (3) prescribes the procedure to be followed in connection with an interview which—\n(a) is held with the contractor during the course of the investigation by the person investigating the complaint or matter; and\n(b) is not within regulation 56.\n(3) Where a contractor is required for interview as part of—\n(a) an investigation under regulation 45, the Director General shall;\n(b) an investigation under regulation 44, the investigator shall,\ngive written notice to the contractor that the interview will take place in accordance with this regulation, and if reasonably practicable, agree a date and time for the interview with the contractor.\n(4) Where no date and time is agreed under paragraph (3), the relevant investigator or, in the case of an investigation under regulation 45 by a designated person who is not the Director General, the Director General shall specify a date and time for the interview.\n(5) Where a date and time is specified under paragraph (4) and—\n(a) the contractor or the contractor’s accompanying person will not be available at that time; and\n(b) the contractor proposes an alternative time which satisfies paragraph (6),\nthe interview shall be postponed to the time proposed by the contractor.\n(6) 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 relevant investigator or, in the case of an investigation under regulation 45 by a designated person who is not the Director General, the Director General.\n(7) The contractor shall be given written notice of the date, time and place of the interview.\n(8) The relevant investigator or, in the case of an investigation under regulation 45 by a designated person who is not the Director General, the Director General shall, in advance of the interview, provide the contractor with such information as the relevant investigator or, as the case may be, the Director General considers appropriate in the circumstances of the case to enable the contractor to prepare for the interview.\n(9) The contractor shall attend the interview.\n(10) An accompanying person may not answer any questions asked of the contractor during the interview.\n(11) Where an accompanying person is a contractor, the contractor manager shall permit the accompanying person to use a reasonable amount of duty time for the purposes of this regulation.\n(12) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to an interview of any person—\n(a) in relation to an investigation of a complaint, in respect of whom it appears to the investigator or, in the case of an investigation under regulation 45 by a designated person who is not the Director General, the Director General that there is a relevant indication; or\n(b) in relation to an investigation of a recordable conduct matter, to whose conduct the investigation relates.\n(13) Nothing in this regulation prevents or restricts the holding of interviews to which this regulation does not apply during the course of any investigation under these Regulations.\n(14) In this regulation—\n“accompanying person” means any person nominated by the contractor and who is not otherwise involved in the matter;\n“relevant indication” means an indication that a person to whose conduct the investigation relates may have—\n(a)committed a criminal offence; or\n(b)behaved in a manner which would justify the bringing of disciplinary proceedings;\n“relevant investigator” means a person appointed or designated to investigate under regulations 44 or 45.",
  "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 reg. 59(1)(b) substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(a) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 59(3) substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(b) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(4) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(c)(i) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(6)(b) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(c)(ii) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(8) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(c)(iii) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(8) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(d) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(12)(a) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 33(21)(c)(iv) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 59 in force at 8.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/431/regulation/59",
    "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."
}