Paragraph 28B F1

A person to whom a recommendation under paragraph 28A is made must provide to the F2Director General a response in writing stating—

The person must provide the response to the Director General before the end of the period of 56 days beginning with the day on which the recommendation was made, unless sub-paragraph (3) applies.

The Director General may extend the period of 56 days following an application received before the end of the period; and if the Director General grants an extension, the person must provide the response before the end of the extended period.

But if proceedings for judicial review of the F3Director General's decision to make a recommendation are started during the period allowed by sub-paragraph (2) or (3), that period is extended by however many days the proceedings are in progress.

On receiving a response, the Director General must, within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the Director General received it—

unless the person giving the response has made representations under sub-paragraph (6).

The person giving the response may, at the time of providing it to the Director General, make representations to the Director General asserting that the requirements of publication and disclosure under sub-paragraph (5) should not apply to the response, or to particular parts of it.

On receiving such representations, the Director General may decide—

Where, following a decision on representations, the Director General decides to publish or disclose a response (in whole or in part), F4the Director General must do so only after the person giving the response has been informed of the Director General's decision, and—

But if proceedings for judicial review of the Director General's decision to reject a representation are started during the period of 7 days referred to in sub-paragraph (8)(b)(ii)—

Where a local policing body or a chief officer makes a response under this paragraph, the body or officer must, at the time the Director General publishes the response, also publish the response (to the same extent as published by the Director General) and the recommendation under paragraph 28A.

For the purposes of this paragraph—

This paragraph does not apply, or ceases to apply, in relation to a recommendation made by virtue of paragraph 28A(1) if the Director General determines under section 13B that the complaint, recordable conduct matter or DSI matter that the Director General received a report on F6(or otherwise completed one on in relation to an investigation carried out under paragraph 19 by the Director General personally) is to be re-investigated.