{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Persons conducting appeal",
  "text": "(1) A panel must comprise a chair and two other members.\n(2) The panel chair—\n(a) where the officer concerned is an officer other than a senior officer, must be the chief officer of police of the police force concerned, or\n(b) where the officer concerned is a senior officer, must be HMCIC or an inspector of constabulary nominated by HMCIC.\n(3) The second panel member must be appointed by the local policing body and—\n(a) have qualifications or experience relevant for the purpose of withdrawal assessments,\n(b) be selected on a fair and transparent basis from the list of candidates with such qualifications or experience maintained by the local policing body for the purpose of this sub-paragraph, and\n(c) be a lay person, within the meaning set out in paragraph 10(aa) of Schedule 6 to the 1996 Act (interpretation).\n(4) The third panel member must be appointed by the vetting authority and be—\n(a) a senior officer, or\n(b) unless paragraph (5) applies, a police staff member who, in the opinion of the vetting authority, is of at least a similar level of seniority to a senior officer.\n(5) This paragraph applies if responsibility for chairing the panel has been delegated to a former senior officer or a police staff member in accordance with regulation 3(3)(b) or (c).\n(6) No panel member may be an interested party.\n(7) A chief officer of police who is required to chair a panel under paragraph (2) and who is an interested party must, without delay, delegate responsibility for chairing the panel to another person in accordance with regulation 3(3).\n(8) Any decision of the panel must be based on a majority but must not indicate whether it was taken unanimously or by a majority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in force at 14.5.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 10(aa) was inserted by section 31(5)(a) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/502/regulation/27",
    "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."
}