The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1 TRANSITIONAL MODIFICATIONS TO OLD REGULATIONS

PART 1 The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008

1.  Subject to paragraph 2, the modifications to the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008 (“the 2008 Regulations”) in this Part have effect in every case to which those Regulations continue to apply.

2.  The modifications in paragraphs 5 and 6 do not have effect in a case in which any person was appointed before 22nd November 2012 to conduct misconduct proceedings under regulation 26, 26A or 27, or to conduct a special case hearing under regulation 47, 47A or 48, and the proceedings or hearing have not been completed by that date.

3.  In regulation 3(1)—

(a) after the definition of “the Performance Regulations”, insert the definition of “acting chief officer” which appears in regulation 3(1) of these Regulations;

(b) for the definition of “appropriate authority” and “police staff member” substitute the definitions which appear in regulation 3(1) of these Regulations.

4.  In regulation 25(4)(c), for “police authority or the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime” substitute “local policing body”.

5.  Omit regulations 26, 27, 47 and 48.

6.  In regulations 26A, 34, 34A, 35, 36, 47A, 54, 54A, 55 and 56 omit the words “of the Metropolitan Police Force” wherever they appear.

7.  In regulation 26A(2)(c), for “police authority or the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime” substitute “local policing body”.

8.  In regulation 47A(2)(c), for “police authority or the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime” substitute “local policing body”.

9.  In regulation 58(2), for “the police authority of the police force concerned or, in the case of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime” substitute “the local policing body for the police force concerned”.

PART 2 The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004

10.—(1) The following modifications to the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004 have effect in every case where those Regulations continue to apply.

11.  In regulation 3(1)—

(a) before the definition of “appropriate authority” insert the definition of “acting chief officer” which appears in regulation 3(1) of these Regulations;

(b) for the definition of “appropriate authority” substitute the definition which appears in regulation 3(1) of these Regulations.

12.  In regulation 5—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a), for “police authority or, in the case of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime” substitute “local policing body”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for “police authority, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime” substitute “local policing body”.

13.  In regulation 19(5), for “by the police authority for the force concerned or by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime from a list of candidates maintained by that authority or Office” substitute “by the local policing body for the force concerned from a list of candidates maintained by that body”.