{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/730",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the appropriate officer” means—\n(a) where the member concerned is a member of the metropolitan police force or the City of London police force, an assistant commissioner in that police force;\n(b) in any other case, an assistant chief constable;\n“appropriate standard” means the standard set out in the Code of Conduct;\n“the Assistant Commissioner”, in relation to the metropolitan police force, means the assistant commissioner for the time being authorised under section 8 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1856;\n“Authority” means the Police Complaints Authority;\n“Code of Conduct” means the code of conduct contained in Schedule 1;\n“complaint” has the meaning assigned to it by section 65 of the 1996 Act;\n“an interested party” means a witness or any person involved in the conduct which is the subject of the case or who otherwise has a direct interest in the case;\n“member concerned” means the officer in relation to whose conduct there has been a report, complaint or allegation;\n“police force concerned” means, in relation to a person whose conduct is the subject of a report, complaint or allegation, the police force of which he is a member; and any reference to the chief officer concerned is a reference to the chief officer of that force;\n“supervising officer” means the officer appointed under regulation 7 to supervise the investigation of the case; and\n“the 1996 Act” means the Police Act 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to a regulation or Schedule contained in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1856 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2599",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Conduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1549",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Police) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/730/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:09.095338+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."
}