{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-4F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-4F.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4F",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4F",
  "heading": "Duty to provide police candidate with detailed reasons for certain decisions",
  "text": "(1) Where a vetting authority makes a decision under this Part to—\n(a) grant a police candidate vetting clearance subject to conditions,\n(b) decline to grant a police candidate vetting clearance,\n(c) add or vary a condition to which a police candidate’s vetting clearance is subject, or\n(d) revoke a police candidate’s vetting clearance,\nit must, subject to paragraph (2), provide the police candidate with detailed reasons in writing for its decision.\n(2) The vetting authority must not provide the police candidate with information in so far as it considers that any of the reasons for preventing disclosure of information listed in regulation 8(2)(a) to (g) apply to that information; and for the purposes of this paragraph, regulation 8(2)(d) is to be read as if “other” were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1A inserted (13.7.2026) by The Police (Conduct and Vetting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/653), regs. 1(1), 15 (with reg. 28)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/502/regulation/4F",
    "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."
}