{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-border-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2010/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which an investigation or other procedure may be suspended",
  "text": "(1) The Director General may suspend any investigation or other procedure under these Regulations which would, if it were to continue, prejudice any criminal proceedings.\n(2) A relevant appropriate authority may, subject to paragraph (3), suspend any investigation or other procedure under these Regulations which would, if it were to continue, prejudice any criminal investigation or proceedings.\n(3) The Director General may direct that any investigation or other procedure under these Regulations which is liable to be suspended under paragraph (2) shall continue if the Director General is of the view that it is in the public interest to make such a direction.\n(4) The Director General shall consult the relevant appropriate authority before making such a direction.",
  "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. 44 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/44",
    "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."
}