{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-9", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-9.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/9", "kind": "regulation", "number": "9", "heading": "General duties of the Permanent Secretary, Director General and inspectors", "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of—\n(a) the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office,\n(b) the Director General, and\n(c) HMIC carrying out its functions in relation to the NCA,\nto ensure that they are each kept informed, in relation to the NCA, about all matters falling within paragraph (2).\n(2) Those matters are—\n(a) matters with respect to which any provision of these Regulations has effect;\n(b) anything which is done under or for the purposes of any such provision; and\n(c) any obligations to act or refrain from acting that have arisen by or under these Regulations but have not yet been complied with, or have been contravened.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies in a case where it appears to the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office that—\n(a) an obligation to act or refrain from acting has arisen by or under these Regulations;\n(b) that obligation is an obligation of the Director General; and\n(c) the Director General has not yet complied with that obligation, or has contravened it.\n(4) The Permanent Secretary to the Home Office may direct the Director General to take such steps as the Permanent Secretary thinks appropriate.\n(5) The Director General must comply with any direction given under paragraph (4).\n(6) Where—\n(a) the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office requires the Director General or the chief officer of a police force to provide an NCA officer or a member of a police force for appointment under regulation 41, 42 or 43; or\n(b) the Director General requires the chief officer of a police force to provide a member of that force for appointment under any of those regulations,\nit shall be the duty of the Director General or the chief officer to whom the requirement is addressed to comply with it.\n(7) It shall be the duty of—\n(a) the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office, and\n(b) the Director General,\nto provide the IOPC DG and every member of the IOPC’s staff with all such assistance as the IOPC DG or that member of staff may reasonably require for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of any investigation by the IOPC DG under these Regulations.\n(8) It shall be the duty of—\n(a) the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office; and\n(b) the Director General,\nto ensure that a person appointed under regulation 41, 42 or 43 to carry out an investigation is given all such assistance and co-operation in the carrying out of that investigation as that person may reasonably require.\n(9) The duties imposed by paragraphs (7) and (8) on the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office and Director General have effect—\n(a) irrespective of whether the investigation relates to the conduct of a person who is or has been an NCA officer; and\n(b) irrespective of who has the person appointed to carry out the investigation under that person’s direction and control,\nbut a chief officer of a third force may be required to give assistance and co-operation under paragraph (8) only with the approval of the chief officer of the force to which the person who requires it belongs.\n(10) In paragraph (9) “third force”, in relation to an investigation, means a police force other than—\n(a) the force to which the person carrying out the investigation belongs; or\n(b) the force to which the person whose conduct is under investigation belonged at the time of the conduct,\nand where the person whose conduct is under investigation was an NCA officer at the time of the conduct, “third force” means any police force other than the force to which the person carrying out the investigation belongs.\n(11) Where the person who requires assistance and co-operation under paragraph (8) is an NCA officer, a chief officer of a third force may be required to give that assistance and co-operation only with the approval of the Director General.\n(12) Where—\n(a) the person carrying out an investigation is not an NCA officer; and\n(b) the person whose conduct is under investigation was not an NCA officer at the time of the conduct,\nthe NCA may be required to give assistance and co-operation under paragraph (8) only with the approval of the relevant directing officer.\n(13) In paragraph (12) “the relevant directing officer”, in a case where the person who requires assistance and co-operation belongs to a police force, means the chief officer of that force.", "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": "Word in reg. 9(7) substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 30(9) (with reg. 37)" }, { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Reg. 9 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/9", "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." }