{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Parts 3 and 4 of these Regulations apply where information which indicates that a police officer may no longer be suitable to hold vetting clearance (“a matter”) comes to the attention of the vetting authority of the police force concerned.\n(2) A vetting authority is not prevented from considering a matter under Part 3 or 4 of these Regulations by virtue of the fact that the matter has been considered or determined under the Conduct Regulations, the Performance Regulations or Part 2 of the 2002 Act.\n(3) Where a vetting authority is considering more than one matter in relation to the same police officer, the matters may be taken together and treated as a single matter for the purposes of any provision of Part 3 or 4 of these Regulations that requires a person to make an assessment, finding, determination or decision in connection with a matter.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (13.7.2026) by The Police (Conduct and Vetting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/653), regs. 1(1), 13 (with reg. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}