The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2012

Provision of information to the Commission

35.—(1) It shall be the duty of every police and crime panel, every relevant office holder and every chief officer of police—

(a) to provide the Commission with all such information and documents specified or described in a notification given by the Commission to that panel, office holder or chief officer, and

(b) to produce or deliver up to the Commission all such evidence and other things so specified or described,

as appear to the Commission to be required by it for the purposes of the carrying out of any of its functions.

(2) Anything falling to be provided, produced or delivered up by any person in pursuance of a requirement imposed under paragraph (1) must be provided, produced or delivered up in such form, in such manner and within such period as may be specified in—

(a) the notification imposing the requirement; or

(b) any subsequent notification given by the Commission to that person for the purposes of this paragraph.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall require a person—

(a) to provide the Commission with any information or document, or to produce or deliver up any other thing, before the earliest time at which it is practicable for the person to do so; or

(b) to provide, produce or deliver up anything in a case in which it never becomes practicable for the person to do so.

(4) A requirement imposed by any notification under this regulation may authorise or require information or documents to which it relates to be provided to the Commission electronically.