{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-55.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/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Restrictions on proceedings pending the conclusion of an investigation",
  "text": "(1) No criminal or disciplinary proceedings shall be brought in relation to any matter which is the subject of an investigation in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations until—\n(a) the appropriate authority has certified the case as a special case under regulation 57(3) or 60(3); or\n(b) a report on that investigation has been submitted to the IOPC DG or to the appropriate authority under regulation 66 or 69 or, in the case of an investigation under regulation 44 by the IOPC DG acting personally, a report has been completed by the IOPC DG.\n(2) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the bringing of criminal or disciplinary proceedings in respect of any conduct at any time after the discontinuance of the investigation in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations which relate to that conduct.\n(3) The restrictions imposed by this regulation in relation to the bringing of criminal proceedings shall not apply to the bringing of criminal proceedings by the Director of Public Prosecutions in any case in which it appears to him that there are exceptional circumstances which make it undesirable to delay the bringing of such proceedings.",
  "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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55(1)(b) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 30(18) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 55 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/55",
    "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."
}