{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-senior-officers-regulations-1999/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-senior-officers-regulations-1999/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) (Senior Officers) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-senior-officers-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Tribunal’s report",
  "text": "(1) The tribunal shall review the facts of the case and decide whether or not the conduct of the senior officer concerned met the appropriate standard.\n(2) The tribunal shall not find that the conduct of the senior officer concerned failed to meet the appropriate standard unless the conduct is–\n(a) admitted by the senior officer concerned; or\n(b) proved by the person presenting the case on the balance of probabilities,\nto have failed to meet that standard.\n(3) The tribunal shall, as soon as possible after the hearing, submit a report to the appropriate authority setting out–\n(a) the finding of the tribunal under paragraph (1);\n(b) if that finding was that the conduct of the senior officer concerned failed to meet the appropriate standard, a recommendation as to any sanction which, subject to regulation 21, in its opinion should be imposed; and\n(c) any other matter arising out of the hearing which it desires to bring to the notice of the appropriate authority.\n(4) The tribunal shall send the senior officer concerned a copy of the report.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/731/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:07.757318+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."
}