{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-complaints-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-complaints-regulations-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/641",
  "legislation_title": "The NCIS (Complaints) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-complaints-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Reports on investigations etc.",
  "text": "(1) At the end of an investigation which the PCA have supervised, the investigating officer shall—\n(a) submit a report on the investigation to the PCA, and\n(b) send a copy of the report to the NCIS Service Authority.\n(2) After consideration of a report submitted to them under paragraph (1) the PCA shall submit an appropriate statement to the NCIS Service Authority.\n(3) If it is practicable to do so, the PCA, when submitting the appropriate statement under paragraph (2), shall send a copy of it to the senior police member of NCIS whose conduct has been investigated.\n(4) If—\n(a) the investigation related to a complaint, and\n(b) it is practicable to do so,\nthe PCA shall also send a copy of the appropriate statement to the person by or on behalf of whom the complaint was submitted.\n(5) The power to issue an appropriate statement includes power to issue separate statements in respect of the disciplinary and criminal aspects of the investigation.\n(6) No disciplinary proceedings shall be brought before the appropriate statement is submitted to the NCIS Service Authority.\n(7) Subject to paragraph (8), neither the NCIS Service Authority nor the Director of Public Prosecutions shall bring criminal proceedings before the appropriate statement is submitted to the NCIS Service Authority.\n(8) The restriction imposed by paragraph (7) does not apply if it appears to the Director that there are exceptional circumstances which make it undesirable to wait for the submission of the appropriate statement.\n(9) In this regulation “appropriate statement” means a statement—\n(a) as to whether the investigation was or was not conducted to the PCA’s satisfaction,\n(b) specifying any respect in which it was not so conducted, and\n(c) dealing with any other matters which are matters of the kind provided for in regulations made under section 89 of the 1984 Act for the purposes of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/641/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:16.023819+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."
}