{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010/regulation-34.json",
  "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/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Combining and splitting investigations",
  "text": "(1) A relevant appropriate authority which is carrying out an investigation on its own behalf may—\n(a) combine that investigation with another such investigation, or\n(b) split that investigation into two or more such separate investigations,\nif it considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where the Director General is supervising, managing or carrying out an investigation, the Director General may—\n(a) combine that investigation with another investigation, or\n(b) split that investigation into two or more separate investigations,\nif the Director General considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.\n(3) The Director General shall not take any action under paragraph (2) in relation to a supervised or managed investigation except after consultation with the relevant appropriate authority.",
  "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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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)(e) (with regs. 17(3), 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 34 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/34",
    "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."
}