{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-2008/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-2008/regulation-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2864",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Attendance of complainant and interested persons at special case hearing",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply in the case of a special case hearing arising from a—\n(a) conduct matter to which paragraph 16, 17, 18 or 19 of Schedule 3 to the 2002 Act (investigations) applied; or\n(b) complaint which was certified as subject to special requirements under paragraph 19B(1) of that Schedule (assessment of seriousness of conduct).\n(2) The appropriate authority shall notify the complainant or any interested person of the date, time and place of the special case hearing.\n(3) Subject to any conditions imposed under regulation 53(3), the complainant or any interested person may—\n(a) attend the special case hearing as an observer up to but not including the point at which the person conducting or chairing the hearing considers the question of disciplinary action; and\n(b) be accompanied by one other person, and if the complainant or interested person has a special need, by one further person to accommodate that need.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a person has a special need if, in the opinion of the person conducting or chairing the special case hearing, he has a disability or learning difficulty, or does not have sufficient knowledge of English, to participate in or understand the special case hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2864/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:23.953432+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."
}