{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-discipline-senior-officers-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1017",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Discipline) (Senior Officers) (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-discipline-senior-officers-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "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 officer subject to investigation has made under regulation 4(4)(b); and\n(c) any statement obtained from any witness.\n(2) Where, following receipt of the investigating officer’s report, it appears to the police authority that the officer subject to investigation may have committed a disciplinary offence, the authority shall decide whether disciplinary proceedings need to be taken.\n(3) If the police authority decide that no disciplinary proceedings need to be taken, they shall so inform the officer subject to inves tigation 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/1990/1017/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:20:44.008527+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."
}