The Police (Conduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 50(1), (2)(e), (3), (3A) to (3G), (4) and (7) and 51(1), (2)(ba), (2A) to (2H), (3A) and (4) of the Police Act 1996 M1, section 36(1)(a) of the Police Reform Act 2002 M2and section 29(7) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 M3.
In accordance with section 63(3)(a) of the Police Act 1996 M4, the Secretary of State has supplied a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and has taken into consideration the representations made by that Board before making these Regulations.
Citation and commencement1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Conduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force immediately after the coming into force of the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 M5.
Amendment of the Police (Conduct) Regulations 20202.
(1)
The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 are amended as follows.
(2)
In regulation 24 (presenting of case by the Director General), in paragraph (2)(a), after “regulation 23(9)(a)” insert “
or (c)
”
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Home Office
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/4) (“the Conduct Regulations”) and come into force immediately after the coming into force of those Regulations on 1st February 2020. Regulation 24 of the Conduct Regulations sets out the cases which the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct can present in a misconduct hearing or an accelerated misconduct hearing. The amendment in regulation 2 of these Regulations enables the Director General to present a case where the Director General has given a direction to the appropriate authority under paragraph 27(4) of Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) to give effect to the Director General's recommendation under paragraph 25(4C) of that Schedule to bring misconduct proceedings of a form specified.
An impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as no impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.