{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-and-vetting-etc-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/653",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct and Vetting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-and-vetting-etc-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020",
  "text": "(1) The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020 are amended in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 17 (special procedure: notification of severity assessment etc.), in paragraph (1), insert after sub-paragraph (c)—\n“(ca) where relevant, that if, after the day on which the officer is given the written notice, the officer is charged with an offence listed in Schedule 3 to the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 in connection with the conduct that is the subject matter of the allegation, or with attempt or conspiracy to commit such an offence, the officer will be automatically suspended upon notification of the charge;”.\n(3) In regulation 51 (manner and time limit of notifications under these Regulations), in paragraph (1E), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) in any other case, on the next working day after the day referred to in sub-paragraph (a).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2020/2, as amended by S.I. 2025/558."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1E) was inserted by S.I. 2025/558."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/653/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:44.779966+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."
}