{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010/regulation-32",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/782",
  "legislation_title": "The UK Border Agency (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Appointment of persons to carry out investigations",
  "text": "(1) No person shall be appointed to carry out an investigation under regulations 38 (investigation by a police force at the request of the relevant appropriate authority) to 41 (investigations managed by the Director General)—\n(a) unless that person has an appropriate level of knowledge, skills and experience to plan and conduct the investigation and to manage the resources that will be required during that process;\n(b) if that person has any social, financial or other connection, whether or not within the work environment, with the person whose conduct is being investigated which could, on an objective appraisal of the material facts, give rise to a legitimate fear as to whether that investigation can be carried out impartially;\n(c) if that person works, directly or indirectly, under the management of the person whose conduct is being investigated.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 17(2)(c) (with regs. 17(3), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 32 in force at 7.4.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/782/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:35.562823+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."
}