{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-senior-officers-scotland-regulations-1999/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-senior-officers-scotland-regulations-1999/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) (Senior Officers) (Scotland) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-senior-officers-scotland-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Report of investigation",
  "text": "(1) The investigating officer shall, after due investigation in which he shall take all reasonable steps to obtain statements from witnesses, submit to the police authority a report of his investigation together with–\n(a) the investigation form;\n(b) any written statement, or a record of any oral statement, which the senior officer has made under regulation 5(7)(a)(ii); and\n(c) any statement obtained from any witness.\n(2) Following receipt of the investigating officer’s report, the police authority shall decide whether there is sufficient evidence of misconduct on the part of the senior officer which would justify requiring him to appear before a misconduct hearing.\n(3) If the police authority decides that further proceedings would not be justified they shall so inform the senior officer in writing forthwith.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1074/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:01.479392+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."
}