{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-53.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2325",
  "legislation_title": "The National Crime Agency (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "NCA friend",
  "text": "(1) The person concerned may choose—\n(a) an NCA officer; or\n(b) an official of a trade union,\nwho is not otherwise involved in the matter to act as that person’s NCA friend.\n(2) An NCA friend may—\n(a) provide any relevant document to the investigator in accordance with regulation 50(2)(b);\n(b) accompany the person concerned to any interview conducted under regulation 51;\n(c) advise the person concerned throughout proceedings under these Regulations; and\n(d) make representations to the IOPC DG concerning any aspect of the proceedings under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 30(2)(a) (with regs. 30(3), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 53 in force at 7.10.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2325/regulation/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:41:21.235354+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."
}