Paragraph 25A F1
This paragraph applies where, on the review of the outcome of a complaint under paragraph 25, the F2Director General makes a recommendation under sub-paragraph (4C)(c) of that paragraph.
Where the appropriate authority notifies the Director General under paragraph 25(4D)(a) that the recommendation has been accepted, the Director General must notify the complainant and every person entitled to be kept properly informed in relation to the complaint under section 21 of that fact and of the steps that have been, or are to be taken, by the appropriate authority to give effect to it.
Where the appropriate authority—
notifies the Director General under paragraph 25(4D)(a) that it does not (either in whole or in part) accept the recommendation, or
fails to take steps to give full effect to the recommendation,
the Director General must determine what, if any, further steps to take under paragraph 27 as applied by paragraph 25(4D)(b).
The Director General must notify the complainant and every person entitled to be kept properly informed in relation to the complaint under section 21—
of any determination under sub-paragraph (3) not to take further steps, and
where the Director General determines under that sub-paragraph that F3the Director General will take further steps, of the outcome of the taking of those steps.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. 3 para. 25A and cross-heading inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 1.2.2020 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 5 para. 35; S.I. 2020/5, reg. 2(n) (with art. 3(1)(2)(4))
- F2
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 8.1.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 9 para. 56(2) (with Sch. 9 para. 56(6)); S.I. 2017/1249, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)
- F3
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 8.1.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 9 para. 56(4) (with Sch. 9 para. 56(6)); S.I. 2017/1249, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)
Notes on Schedule 3
Modifications
- C1
Sch. 3 modified (15.12.2017) by S.I. 2012/1204, Sch. Pt. 1 (as inserted by The Police (Conduct, Complaints and Misconduct and Appeal Tribunal) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1134), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with reg. 2))
- C2
Sch. 3 applied (with modifications) by 1984 c. 55, ss. 56A-56C (as inserted (6.4.2023 for specified purposes) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 53(1), 170(4)(c); S.I. 2023/362, reg. 3(1)(v))