# The UK Border Agency (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2010, Regulation 10: Co-operation, assistance and information

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) It shall be the duty of the relevant appropriate authority, the Chief Inspector of the UKBA, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to ensure that they are kept informed, in relation to relevant officers, relevant officials of the Secretary of State, relevant contractors, officials exercising customs revenue functions and customs revenue contractors, about all matters falling within paragraph (2).
(2) Those matters are—
(a) matters with respect to which any provision of these Regulations has effect;
(b) anything which is done under or for the purposes of any such provision; and
(c) any obligations to act or refrain from acting that have arisen by or under these Regulations but have not yet been complied with, or have been contravened.
(3) Where the relevant appropriate authority requires a chief officer to provide a member of his force for appointment under regulation 38 (investigation by a police force at the request of the relevant appropriate authority) or where the Director General requires the chief officer to provide a member of his force for appointment under regulation 40 (investigation by a police force under the management or under the supervision of the Director General), it shall be the duty of the chief officer to whom the requirement is addressed to comply with it.
(4) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, the relevant appropriate authority, a local policing body maintaining a police force within which a person is appointed under regulation 38 or 40 and the chief officer of a police force appointed under regulation 38 or 40 to provide—
(a) the Director General and every member of the IOPC’s staff with all such assistance and co-operation as the Director General or that member of staff may reasonably require for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of any investigation by the Director General under these Regulations; and
(b) the relevant appropriate authority and every member of the relevant appropriate authority’s staff with all such assistance and co-operation as the relevant appropriate authority or those members of staff may reasonably require for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of any investigation by the relevant appropriate authority under these Regulations.
(5) It shall be the duty of the relevant appropriate authority to ensure that a person appointed under regulations 38, 39 (investigations supervised by the Director General), 40, 41 (investigations managed by the Director General) and 42 (investigations by the Director General ...) to carry out an investigation or part of an investigation is given all such assistance and co-operation in the carrying out of that investigation as that person may reasonably require.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/782/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010/regulation-10
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