Article 26 Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2004

The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2004^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 1(2) the following definition is inserted before the definition of “working day”–

• ““a relevant offence” means—

  1. (a)

     an offence for which the sentence is fixed by law,

  2. (b)

     an offence for which a person of 18 years or over (not previously convicted) may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of seven years (or might be so sentenced but for the restrictions imposed by section 33 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980^f2;”.

For paragraph (v) of regulation 2(2)(a), there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(v)

a relevant offence, or”.

For sub-paragraph (e) of regulation 5(1), there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(e)

a relevant offence;”.