{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-2004/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-2004/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/645",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Notice of hearing",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority (in the case of a senior officer) or the supervising officer (in any other case) shall ensure that at least 21 days in advance the officer concerned is notified of the time, date and place of the hearing.\n(2) In a case to which this paragraph applies the hearing may, if the appropriate authority or supervising officer considers it appropriate in the circumstances, take place before the expiry of the 21 days referred to in paragraph (1).\n(3) Paragraph (2) applies where the officer concerned is given a written notice under regulation 14(1) of a decision to refer the case to a hearing and—\n(a) at the time he receives such a notice he is detained in pursuance of the sentence of a court in a prison or other institution to which the Prison Act 1952 applies, or has received a suspended sentence of imprisonment; and\n(b) having been supplied under regulation 14 with the documents therein mentioned he does not elect to be legally represented at the hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/645/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:30:23.842816+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."
}