{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-5A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "Review of vetting clearance",
  "text": "(1) A vetting authority may from time to time carry out such checks as are necessary to assess whether, in respect of a police officer to whom it has granted vetting clearance—\n(a) there is information which indicates that the officer may no longer be suitable to hold vetting clearance, or\n(b) it is appropriate to add, vary or remove a condition to which the officer’s vetting clearance is subject.\n(2) A vetting authority must carry out a criminal history check in respect of a police officer to whom it has granted vetting clearance if—\n(a) the vetting authority has considered information concerning a change in the officer’s personal circumstances or other matter, and\n(b) the information does not, on its own, indicate that the officer may no longer be suitable to hold vetting clearance, but risk remains that warrants further assessment.\n(3) A vetting authority must assess whether either of the conditions mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) applies in respect of a police officer to whom it has granted vetting clearance if the officer—\n(a) has been subject to misconduct proceedings or an accelerated misconduct hearing, and\n(b) has not been dismissed.\n(4) Following a review of a police officer’s vetting clearance, a vetting authority may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, add, vary or remove a condition to which the vetting clearance is subject.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 5A-5F inserted (13.7.2026) by The Police (Conduct and Vetting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/653), regs. 1(1), 17 (with reg. 28)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/502/regulation/5A",
    "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."
}