PART 2Investigations
Interviews while detained10
1
This regulation applies where a relevant party is required to attend an interview while he or she is detained.
2
Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a relevant party must be given at least three working days written notice of the date and time of the interview and how it is to be conducted.
3
A relevant party may agree to an interview taking place with less than three working days notice.
4
The notice mentioned in paragraph (3) need not be in writing.
5
An interview may take place in person or by telephone; and a reference in this regulation to how an interview is to be conducted is a reference to whether it is to take place in person or by telephone.
6
Subject to paragraph (7), regulations 7 and 9 do not apply where a relevant party is required to attend an interview under this regulation.
7
Where a relevant party is interviewed by telephone—
a
paragraph (5) of regulation 9 applies as if the words “(and, as the case may be, the other relevant party)” in sub-paragraph (b) were omitted; and
b
paragraph (6) of that regulation applies as if—
i
the words “(or the other relevant party)”;
ii
the words “(or, as the case may be, the other relevant party)” in sub-paragraph (a);
iii
the words from “or with” to the end in sub-paragraph (b); and
iv
the words “(or, as the case may be, the other relevant party)” in sub-paragraph (c),
were omitted.