{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/schedule-7/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/13",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) serious complaints, and\n(b) conduct matters,\nwhich relate to any relevant office holder.\n(2) Regulations must provide for serious complaints and conduct matters to be investigated—\n(a) by the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, or\n(b) by a police force, in an investigation that is under the management of the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n(3) This paragraph does not prevent regulations from making provision about the receipt or initial handling of serious complaints or conduct matters otherwise than by the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct or a police force.\n(4) This paragraph does not prevent regulations from making provision about—\n(a) circumstances in which serious complaints or conduct matters are not to be investigated; and\n(b) circumstances in which investigations of serious complaints or conduct matters are to be discontinued;\nincluding provision about the determination of such matters (whether by the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, a police force or otherwise).\n(5) Regulations may make provision about what is to be taken to be a criminal offence for the purposes of sub-paragraph (6).\n(6) In this paragraph “serious complaint” means a qualifying complaint made about conduct which constitutes or involves, or appears to constitute or involve, the commission of a criminal offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 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. 73(3); S.I. 2017/1249, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 2 in force at 31.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2515, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/13/schedule/7/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:27.716276+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."
}