Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3 paras. 20A-20I inserted (1.7.2005) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 159, 178, Sch. 11 para. 3; S.I. 2005/1521, art. 3(1)(v)
20I(1)Where—E+W
(a)the Commission makes a recommendation under paragraph 20H in the case of an investigation of a complaint, and
(b)the appropriate authority notifies the Commission that the recommendation has been accepted,
the Commission shall notify the complainant and every person entitled to be kept properly informed in relation to the complaint under section 21 of that fact and of the steps that have been, or are to be, taken by the appropriate authority to give effect to it.
(2)Where in the case of an investigation of a complaint the appropriate authority—
(a)notifies the Commission that it does not accept the recommendation made by the Commission under paragraph 20H, or
(b)fails to certify the case under paragraph 20B(3) and to proceed accordingly,
it shall be the duty of the Commission to determine what (if any) further steps to take under paragraph 20H.
(3)It shall be the duty of the Commission to notify the complainant and every person entitled to be kept properly informed in relation to the complaint under section 21—
(a)of any determination under sub-paragraph (2) not to take further steps under paragraph 20H; and
(b)where it determines under that sub-paragraph to take further steps under that paragraph, of the outcome of the taking of those steps.]