{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Performance) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Legal and other representation",
  "text": "(1) Where the officer concerned is required to attend a second stage meeting under regulation 32, the officer has the right to be legally represented at the meeting by a relevant lawyer of the officer’s choice.\n(2) If the officer chooses not to be legally represented—\n(a) the meeting may take place and the officer may be dismissed or be subject to any other outcome ordered under regulation 46(2) or (6) without being legally represented, and\n(b) the panel conducting the meeting may nevertheless be advised by a relevant lawyer at the meeting in accordance with regulation 42(3).\n(3) Except in a case where the officer concerned has the right to be legally represented and chooses to be so represented, the officer may be represented at a meeting under these Regulations only by a police friend.\n(4) A second stage meeting under regulation 32 must not take place unless the officer concerned has been notified in writing of the effect of this regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 20(2) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(4) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 20(3) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}