{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-37.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Performance) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Witnesses",
  "text": "(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after any list of proposed witnesses has been—\n(a) agreed under regulation 36(5), or\n(b) given under regulation 36(6),\nthe appropriate authority must give that list to the panel chair, together with, in the latter case, a list of its proposed witnesses.\n(2) The panel chair must—\n(a) consider the list or lists of proposed witnesses, and\n(b) subject to paragraph (3), determine which, if any, witnesses should attend the second stage meeting.\n(3) The panel chair may determine that witnesses not named in any list of proposed witnesses should attend the second stage meeting.\n(4) No witness may give evidence at a second stage meeting unless the panel chair reasonably believes that it is necessary in the interests of fairness for the witness to do so, in which case the chair must—\n(a) where the witness is a police officer, cause that person to be ordered to attend the second stage meeting, and\n(b) in any other case, cause the witness to be given notice that the witness’s attendance is necessary and of the date, time and place of the meeting.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(2)(b) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 43(2) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(3) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 43(3) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(4) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 43(4)(a) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 37(4)(a) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 43(4)(b) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 37 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/37",
    "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."
}