{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-discipline-senior-police-members-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/636",
  "legislation_title": "The NCIS (Discipline) (Senior Police Members) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-discipline-senior-police-members-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1984 Act” means the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\n“the 1997 Act” means the Police Act 1997;\n“the appropriate authority” means the NCIS Service Authority established under section 1 of the 1997 Act;\n“the Authority” means the Police Complaints Authority established under section 83(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\n“the Director General” means the person appointed under section 6 of the 1997 Act;\n“investigating officer” means an officer appointed under regulation 4 of the NCIS (Complaints) Regulations 1998 (hereinafter referred to as “the Complaints Regulations”), or under regulation 5(3), to investigate a complaint or other matter relating to the conduct of a senior police member;\n“offence” or “disciplinary offence” means an offence set out in the discipline code;\n“police officer” means a police member of NCIS, NCS or a member of a police force;\n“police purposes” means the purposes of NCIS, NCS or a police force;\n“police property” means the property of NCIS, NCS or a police force;\n“representative” means, in relation to disciplinary proceedings against a senior police member, counsel, a solicitor, a police member of NCIS, a police member of the National Crime Squad, or a member of a police force selected by the senior police member for the purpose of those proceedings;\n“NCIS” means the National Criminal Intelligence Service established under section 2 of the 1997 Act;\n“NCIS appeals tribunal” means a tribunal constituted in accordance with an order made under section 38 of the 1997 Act;\n“NCS” means the National Crime Squad established under section 48 of the 1997 Act;\n“police force” means a police force maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996 and “member of a police force” shall be construed accordingly;\n“senior police member” has the meaning given in regulation 2;\n“service fund” means the fund maintained by the NCIS Service Authority under section 16 of the 1997 Act; and\n“tribunal” means such a tribunal as is mentioned in regulation 12;\n(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a regulation shall be construed as a reference to a regulation in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a paragraph shall be construed as a reference to a paragraph of that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/636/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:19.761370+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."
}