The Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct, Performance and Appeals Tribunals) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

Made: 18th December 2025

Laid before Parliament: 23rd December 2025

Coming into force: 28th December 2025

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3A(1), (1A), (3), 4 and 4A of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct, Performance and Appeals Tribunals) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 28th December 2025.

• (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Amendment of the Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct, Performance and Appeals Tribunals) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

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• (1) The Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct, Performance and Appeals Tribunals) (Amendment) Regulations 2025[^f00002] are amended in accordance with this regulation.

• (2) Parts 2, 3 and 4 are revoked.

• (3) Regulations 72 and 73 are revoked.

• (4) Regulation 75 is revoked, except the definition “Head of HR”.

• (5) Regulations 76 and 77(1) and (2) are revoked.

Signed

Vernon Coaker — Minister of State — Ministry of Defence — 18th December 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Explanatory Note

These Regulations amend the Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct, Performance and Appeals Tribunals) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1263) (“the 2025 Regulations”).

They revoke the 2025 Regulations apart from an amendment made as a result of the revocation of legislation in Scotland relating to Police Appeals Tribunals set out in regulation 74.

They revoke the amendments to the Conduct Regulations set out in Schedule 1 to the Ministry of Defence Police (Conduct, Performance and Appeals Tribunals) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1087) (“the 2020 Regulations”), and related amendments to Schedule 2 which set out modifications to the Conduct Regulations for former MDP officers, set out in Parts 2 and 3 of the 2025 Regulations.

They also revoke the amendments to the Performance Regulations set out in Schedule 4 of the 2020 Regulations and consequential amendments to the Appeals Tribunals Regulations set out in Schedule 5 to the 2020 Regulations, set out in Parts 4 and 5 of the 2025 Regulations.

They also revoke the transitional provisions and interpretative rules set out in Part 6 of the 2025 Regulations that relate to the amendments being revoked.

A full impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1987 c. 4. Section 3A was inserted by section 79(1) of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) and amended by paragraph 14 of Schedule 22 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) (“the 2008 Act”), section 6 of the Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), and paragraph 2 of Schedule 7, and paragraph 63(2) of Schedule 9 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3) (“the 2017 Act”); section 4 was substituted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 22 to the 2008 Act, and amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 7, and paragraph 63(3) of Schedule 9 to the 2017 Act; section 4A was substituted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 22 to the 2008 Act, and amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the 2017 Act, and article 26 and paragraph 20(6) of Schedule 2 to the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/602).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2025/1263.