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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Complaints, conduct matters and DSI matters: procedure

Part 4Reviews

35After paragraph 25 insert—

Information for complainant about disciplinary recommendations

25A(1)This paragraph applies where, on the review of the outcome of a complaint under paragraph 25, the Commission makes a recommendation under sub-paragraph (4C)(c) of that paragraph.

(2)Where the appropriate authority notifies the Commission under paragraph 25(4D)(a) that the recommendation has been accepted, the Commission must notify the complainant and every person entitled to be kept properly informed in relation to the complaint under section 21 of that fact and of the steps that have been, or are to be taken, by the appropriate authority to give effect to it.

(3)Where the appropriate authority—

(a)notifies the Commission under paragraph 25(4D)(a) that it does not (either in whole or in part) accept the recommendation, or

(b)fails to take steps to give full effect to the recommendation,

the Commission must determine what, if any, further steps to take under paragraph 27 as applied by paragraph 25(4D)(b).

(4)The Commission must notify the complainant and every person entitled to be kept properly informed in relation to the complaint under section 21—

(a)of any determination under sub-paragraph (3) not to take further steps, and

(b)where the Commission determines under that sub-paragraph that it will take further steps, of the outcome of the taking of those steps.