PART 3 Relevant Review Partners

Relevant review partners
5 This Part applies for the purposes of section 25 of the Act to identify which review partners are to be to the relevant review partners in respect of a person’s death, or where more than one person dies in the same incident in respect of all the deaths.
“Relevant review partner” is defined in section 36(1) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
6 1 This regulation applies where the location or likely location of the death is known and is in a pilot area.
2 The relevant review partners are the review partners listed in regulation 9 in whose area the death occurred or is likely to have occurred.
7 1 This regulation applies where one person dies, the location or likely location of the death is not known and either—
(a) the body of the person who died was recorded to be found in a pilot area,
(b) part of the body of the person who died was recorded to be found in a pilot area, or
(c) part of the body was recorded as found first in a pilot area, where parts were found in more than one area.
2 The relevant review partners are the review partners listed in regulation 9 in whose area either—
(a) the body of the person who died was recorded to be found,
(b) a part of the body of the person who died was recorded to be found, or
(c) part of the body was recorded as found first, where parts were found in more than one area.
8 1 This regulation applies where more than one person dies in the same incident, the location of the deaths is not known, or there is more than one location, and either—
(a) a body of a person who died was recorded as found first in a pilot area; or
(b) part of a body of a person who died was recorded as found first in a pilot area.
2 The relevant review partners are the review partners listed in regulation 9 in whose area a body of a person who died, or a part of a body of a person who died, was recorded as found first.
9 The review partners for the purposes of regulations 6 to 8 are—
(a) the chief officer of police for a police area,
(b) the local authority, and
(c) the integrated care board or, in Wales, the local health board.

10 Power to specify relevant review partner
1 If regulations 6 to 9 do not apply, the Secretary of State may give a direction specifying which review partners are the relevant review partners in respect of a person’s death.
2 The Secretary of State may withdraw or amend a direction given under paragraph (1).