# The Royal Ulster Constabulary (Conduct) Regulations 2000, Regulation 11: Procedures on receipt of investigating officer’s report

Extent: N.I.

(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.
(2) Where—
(a) the Chief Constable has a duty to proceed under section 59(5) or (6) of the Act of 1998; or
(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,
the supervising member shall refer the case to a hearing.
(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—
(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;
(b) if the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 3 are satisfied—
(i) certify the case as a special case and refer it to a hearing, or
(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.
(4) Where a case is not referred to a hearing no reference to it shall be made on the member’s concerned personal record.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/315/regulation/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-conduct-regulations-2000/regulation-11
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