{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-5E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-5E.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5E",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5E",
  "heading": "Duty to provide police officer with detailed reasons for certain decisions",
  "text": "(1) Where a vetting authority makes a decision under this Part to—\n(a) grant a police officer vetting clearance subject to conditions,\n(b) decline to grant a police officer vetting clearance,\n(c) add or vary a condition to which a police officer’s vetting clearance is subject, or\n(d) revoke vetting clearance granted to a police officer,\nit must, subject to paragraph (2), provide the officer with detailed reasons in writing for its decision.\n(2) The vetting authority must not provide the police officer 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.",
  "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/5E",
    "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."
}