{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Withdrawal assessment",
  "text": "(1) The purpose of the withdrawal assessment is to—\n(a) gather evidence to establish the facts and circumstances of the matter, and\n(b) help the vetting authority decide whether the vetting clearance of the officer concerned should be withdrawn or whether it should not be withdrawn.\n(2) Subject to regulation 20, the assessor may interview witnesses as part of the withdrawal assessment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 14.5.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/502/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:16:55.168113+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."
}