{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-conduct-regulations-2000/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-conduct-regulations-2000/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/315",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Ulster Constabulary (Conduct) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-conduct-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Procedures on receipt of investigating officer’s report",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), on receipt of the investigating officer’s report the supervising member may refer the case to a hearing.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the Chief Constable has a duty to proceed under section 59(5) or (6) of the Act of 1998; or\n(b) the member concerned has received two written warnings about his conduct within the previous twelve months, and has in a statement made under regulation 9, admitted that his conduct failed to meet the appropriate standard,\nthe supervising member shall refer the case to a hearing.\n(3) Where the supervising member or Ombudsman, on receipt of a report submitted by the investigating officer under paragraph (2) of regulation 10, is of the opinion the case is one in respect of which the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 3 are likely to be satisfied, he shall refer the case to the appropriate officer, who shall—\n(a) if the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 3 are not satisfied, return the case to the supervising member or Ombudsman as appropriate;\n(b) if the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 3 are satisfied—\n(i) certify the case as a special case and refer it to a hearing, or\n(ii) if the circumstances are such as, in his opinion, make such certification inappropriate, return the case to the supervising member or Ombudsman as appropriate.\n(4) Where a case is not referred to a hearing no reference to it shall be made on the member’s concerned personal record.\n(5) Proceedings at or in connection with a hearing to which a case is referred under this regulation shall, for the purposes of section 50 of the Act of 1998 be disciplinary proceedings.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in operation at 6.11.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/315/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:18.281239+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."
}