{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Performance) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Procedure at first stage appeal meeting",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to the procedure to be followed at a first stage appeal meeting.\n(2) The meeting must be conducted by the appeal manager.\n(3) A human resources professional or a police officer may attend the meeting to advise the appeal manager on the proceedings.\n(4) Any other person specified in the notice referred to in regulation 20(1) may attend the meeting if the officer concerned consents.\n(5) The appeal manager must—\n(a) provide the officer concerned with an opportunity to make representations, and\n(b) provide the police friend (if the officer has one) with an opportunity to address the meeting in accordance with regulation 8(3)(a).\n(6) After considering such representations (if any) and address (if any), the appeal manager may—\n(a) confirm or reverse the finding of unsatisfactory performance or attendance;\n(b) confirm or vary the relevant terms of the written improvement notice appealed against.\n(7) Where the appeal manager reverses the finding of unsatisfactory performance or attendance, the appeal manager must also revoke the written improvement notice.\n(8) The appeal manager may postpone or adjourn the meeting to a specified time, or date and time, if it appears to the appeal manager necessary or expedient to do so.\n(9) As soon as reasonably practicable after the conclusion of the meeting and in any event before the end of 3 working days beginning with the first working day after the conclusion of the meeting, the officer concerned must be given a written notice of the appeal manager’s decision and a written summary of the reasons for that decision.\n(10) Where the appeal manager has—\n(a) reversed the finding of unsatisfactory performance or attendance and revoked the written improvement notice, or\n(b) varied any of the relevant terms of the written improvement notice,\nthe decision of the appeal manager takes effect by way of substitution for the finding, the written improvement notice issued or the relevant terms of the written improvement notice appealed against immediately after the first stage meeting.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(2) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(2) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(3) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(5) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(4) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(6) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(5) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(7) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(6) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(8) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(7) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(9) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(8) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(10) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(9)(a) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(10) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 34(9)(b) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 1.2.2020, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/3/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:05.619022+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."
}