{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-23A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/30",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/23A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) the Director General proposes to make a determination under paragraph 23(2)(b) that one or both of the conditions set out in paragraph 23(2A) and (2B) are not satisfied in respect of a report, and\n(b) during the course of the investigation to which the report relates, a person (if any) to whose conduct the report relates was informed that the investigation was being treated as concerning conduct in respect of which the person may be prosecuted for a criminal offence.\n(2) The Director General must—\n(a) take such steps as the Director General considers reasonable to give to every relevant victim (or a person acting on such a victim’s behalf) the opportunity to request, within the relevant period, that the Director General reviews their proposed determination, and\n(b) if such a request is made within the relevant period, so review their proposed determination before making a determination under paragraph 23(2)(b).\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“the relevant period” means the period that the Director General considers to give a relevant victim a reasonable opportunity to request that the Director General reviews their proposed determination;\n“relevant victim” means a person—\n(a)whom the Director General treats as a victim in relation to an alleged criminal offence constituted by conduct—\n(i)of the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), and\n(ii)to which the report relates, and\n(b)to whom the Director General considers it appropriate to give the opportunity mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 23A inserted (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 26), ss. 199, 255(1) (with s. 8(2)); S.I. 2026/689, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/30/schedule/3/paragraph/23A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:50.998378+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."
}