11.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), on receipt of the investigating officer’s report the supervising officer may refer the case to a hearing.
(2) Where—
(a)the chief officer has a duty to proceed under section 75(7) or 76(2) or (5) of the 1996 Act; or
(b)the member concerned has received two written warnings about his conduct within the previous twelve months and has in a statement made under regulation 9 admitted that his conduct failed to meet the appropriate standard,
the supervising officer shall refer the case to a hearing.
(3) Where the supervising officer, on receipt of a report submitted by the investigating officer under paragraph (2) of regulation 10, is of the opinion that the case is one in respect of which the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 2 are likely to be satisfied, he shall refer the case to the appropriate officer, who shall—
(a)if the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 2 are not satisfied, return the case to the supervising officer;
(b)if the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 2 are satisfied—
(i)certify the case as a special case and refer it to a hearing, or
(ii)if the circumstances are such as, in his opinion, make such certification inappropriate, return the case to the supervising officer.
(4) Where a case is not referred to a hearing no reference to it shall be made on the member concerned’s personal record.
(5) Proceedings at or in connection with a hearing to which a case is referred under this regulation shall, for the purposes of section 65 of the 1996 Act (interpretation of Chapter I of Part IV), be disciplinary proceedings.