{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2599",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 1999 Regulations",
  "text": "The following regulation shall be inserted in the 1999 Regulations—\n“15A. Legal representation for members of the National Crime Squad\n(1) A member of the National Crime Squad of the rank of chief superintendent or below may not be dismissed, required to resign or reduced in rank by a decision taken in proceedings under these Regulations unless he has been given an opportunity to elect to be legally represented at any hearing held in the course of those proceedings.\n(2) Where a member of the National Crime Squad makes an election to which paragraph (1) refers, he may be represented at the hearing, at his option, either by counsel or by a solicitor.\n(3) Except in a case where a member of the National Crime Squad of the rank of chief superintendent or below has been given an opportunity to elect to be legally represented and has so elected, he may be represented at the hearing only by another member of a police force.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2599/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:56:40.673443+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."
}