Regulation 41 Combining and splitting investigationsI1

United Kingdom

(1)

An appropriate authority which is carrying out an investigation on its own behalf may—

(a)

combine that investigation with another such investigation, or

(b)

split that investigation into two or more such separate investigations,

if it considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), where the F1Director General is supervising, managing or carrying out an investigation, F2the Director General may—

(a)

combine that investigation with another investigation, or

(b)

split that investigation into two or more separate investigations,

if the Director General considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.

(3)

The Director General shall not take any action under paragraph (2) in relation to a supervised or managed investigation except after consultation with the appropriate authority.

(4)

Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Director General from determining—

(a)

that where an investigation is split into two or more separate investigations, those investigations may take different forms, or

(b)

that two or more separate investigations which take different forms (including an investigation being carried out by the appropriate authority on its own behalf) may be combined into a single investigation.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 18(2)(a) (with regs. 18(3), 37)
F2: Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 18(2)(c) (with regs. 18(3), 37)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 41 in force at 5.8.2010, see reg. 1