{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Performance) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Arrangement of a second stage meeting",
  "text": "(1) Where the line manager requires the officer concerned to attend a second stage meeting, the senior manager must as soon as reasonably practicable give the officer a written notice—\n(a) referring to the requirement that the officer attend a second stage meeting with a panel appointed by the appropriate authority;\n(b) informing the officer of the procedures for determining the date and time of the meeting under regulation 38;\n(c) summarising the reasons why performance or attendance is considered unsatisfactory;\n(d) informing the officer of the possible outcomes of the meeting;\n(e) informing the officer that if the outcome is dismissal (whether with notice or with immediate effect), the officer’s full name and a description of the conduct which led to dismissal will be added to the police barred list;\n(f) informing the officer that a human resources professional and a police officer may attend the meeting to advise the panel on the proceedings;\n(g) informing the officer that a relevant lawyer may attend the meeting to advise the panel on the proceedings and on any question of law that may arise at the meeting;\n(h) where the officer concerned is a special constable, informing the officer that a special constable will attend the meeting to advise the panel;\n(i) informing the officer that, if the officer consents, any other person specified in the notice may attend the meeting;\n(j) ... informing the officer that the officer may seek advice from a representative of a staff association; and\n(k) informing the officer that the officer may be accompanied and represented at the meeting by a police friend.\n(2) The notice must be accompanied by a copy of any document relied on by the line manager when the line manager formed the view referred to in regulation 30(2) or (4), as the case may be.\n(3) A second stage meeting under this regulation must not take place unless the officer concerned has been notified of the right to representation under paragraph (1)(k).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(1) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 38(3)(a) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(1)(a) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 38(3)(b) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(1)(j) omitted (28.6.2022) by The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 6(4)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(3) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 38(4) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31 heading substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 38(2) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 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/31",
    "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."
}