The Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct etc.) Regulations 2015

Notice of special case hearing

48.—(1) The relevant authority must specify a date for the special case hearing to commence, which must be not fewer than 10 and not more than 15 working days beginning with the first working day after the date on which notice was given under regulation 46.

(2) The relevant authority must immediately—

(a) notify the officer concerned of—

(i) the date, time and place of that hearing; and

(ii) the effect of regulation 10 (police friend and legal representation); and

(b) give the officer concerned—

(i) a copy of any written statement, or transcript or note of any oral statement, the officer may have made to the investigator during the course of the investigation; and

(ii) subject to the harm test, a copy of the investigator’s report or such parts of that report which relate to the officer (together with any document attached to or referred to in that report which relates to the officer), and any other relevant document gathered during the course of the investigation.

(3) Where the Commission or the Ombudsman is entitled to attend the special case hearing to make representations (regulation 54), or to nominate a person to attend the hearing as an observer (regulation 56(2) or (3)), the relevant authority must notify the Commission or the Ombudsman of the date, time and place of the hearing.