# Police Act 1996, Paragraph 9B


(1) This paragraph applies in the case of an appeal by the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (“the Director General”).
(2) The Director General’s costs are to be paid by the Director General unless—
(a) the police appeals tribunal directs that the whole or any part of those costs are to be paid by the appropriate authority, or
(b) sub-paragraph (3) applies.
(3) The Director General’s costs are to be paid by the appropriate authority where the decision appealed against was made in proceedings—
(a) which the Director General directed the appropriate authority to bring, and
(b) at which the appropriate authority and the Director General agreed that the Director General should present the case.
(4) The respondent’s costs are to be paid by the respondent unless the police appeals tribunal directs that the whole or any part of those costs are to be paid by the Director General.
(5) In this paragraph “appropriate authority” means—
(a) where the person to whom the appeal relates is or was a chief officer of police, the local policing body which brought the proceedings in which the decision appealed against was made;
(b) in any other case, the chief officer of police who brought the proceedings in which the decision appealed against was made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/schedule/6/paragraph/9B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/schedule-6/paragraph-9B
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