{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 4 (reference of complaints to the Commission) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (6)(b), for “a possible future investigation of the complaint” substitute “ an investigation of the complaint (whether an existing investigation or a possible future one) ”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (6) insert—\n“(6A) A local policing body which refers a complaint to the Commission under sub-paragraph (3) shall also give a notification of the making of the reference to the appropriate authority.”\n(4) Omit sub-paragraph (8).\n(5) At the end insert—\n“(9) The appropriate authority must record any complaint that is referred to the Commission under this paragraph that has not already been recorded.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4 in force at 1.2.2020 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2020/5, reg. 2(n) (with art. 3(1)(2)(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/schedule/5/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.204895+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."
}