{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-4H",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-4H.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4H",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4H",
  "heading": "Record of vetting clearance: police candidates",
  "text": "(1) A vetting authority must keep a record of—\n(a) each application for vetting clearance that it receives from a police candidate, including the decision on the application and the reasons for the decision,\n(b) each decision that it makes to add, remove or vary a condition to which a police candidate’s vetting clearance is subject, or to revoke a police candidate’s vetting clearance, and the reasons for its decision, and\n(c) each report made to it under regulation 4G(4).\n(2) Where the vetting authority has considered any information which indicates that the police candidate may not be or is not suitable to hold vetting clearance, the record of reasons mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) must be a detailed record.",
  "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/4H",
    "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."
}