{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-performance-regulations-2014/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-performance-regulations-2014/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/67",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Scotland (Performance) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-performance-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Arrangement of progress meeting",
  "text": "(1) If the first line manager refers the constable to a progress meeting under regulation 22(4), the second line manager must send a notice in writing requiring the constable to attend such a meeting.\n(2) A notice under paragraph (1) must give details of—\n(a) the procedures for determining the date and time of the progress meeting;\n(b) the respect in which the constable’s performance is considered to be unsatisfactory;\n(c) the possible outcomes of a progress meeting and a performance hearing;\n(d) any proposed attendance at the meeting of a human resources professional or a police adviser to advise the second line manager on the proceedings;\n(e) any proposed attendance at the meeting of the first line manager;\n(f) any proposed attendance at the meeting of any other named person and the constable’s right to refuse to consent to their attendance;\n(g) the constable’s right to seek advice from a police representative;\n(h) the constable’s right to be represented at the meeting by a police representative; and\n(i) the requirement to provide to the second line manager, in advance of the meeting, a copy of any document on which the constable intends to rely.\n(3) A notice under paragraph (1) must be accompanied by a copy of any document relied upon in coming to the view that the performance of the constable is unsatisfactory.\n(4) The second line manager must, if reasonably practicable, seek to agree a date and time for the progress meeting with the constable.\n(5) If no date and time are agreed under paragraph (4), the second line manager must specify a date and time for the meeting.\n(6) If a date and time are specified under paragraph (5) and—\n(a) the constable or the constable’s police representative will not be available at that date and time; and\n(b) the constable proposes an alternative date and time which satisfy paragraph (7),\nthe meeting must be postponed to the date and time proposed.\n(7) An alternative date and time must—\n(a) be reasonable; and\n(b) fall not later than 10 working days from the date specified by the second line manager under paragraph (5).\n(8) When the date and time of a progress meeting are determined in accordance with paragraphs (4) to (7), the second line manager must send a notice in writing to the constable specifying the date, time and place of that meeting.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 1.4.2014, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/67/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:55.200349+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."
}