{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-discipline-and-disciplinary-appeals-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-discipline-and-disciplinary-appeals-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/42",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Discipline and Disciplinary Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-discipline-and-disciplinary-appeals-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Internal appeals",
  "text": "Regulation 25 of the principal regulations shall be amended—\n(a) in paragraph (4) by substituting for the words “The appeal” the words “Subject to paragraph (4A), the appeal”; and\n(b) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following paragraph—\n“(4A) In the case of an appeal—\n(a) in which the chief constable—\n(i) is interested otherwise than in his capacity as such; or\n(ii) is or was a material witness; or\n(iii) whether before or after his appointment as chief constable was the officer who conducted or, as the case may be, a member of the disciplinary board which conducted the hearing out of which the appeal rose; and\n(b) to which the proviso to paragraph (4) applies,\nthe appeal shall be remitted by the chief constable to such a chief officer of a police force in Great Britain as, at his request, has agreed to act in the matter.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/42/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:58.178526+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."
}