Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

Removal of Independent Examiner

239. The Independent Examiner may be removed from office by the Government for stated reasons, including because he or she has—

(a) without reasonable excuse, failed to perform the functions of the office,

(b) become incapable through ill health or otherwise of effectively performing those functions,

(c) committed stated misbehaviour,

(d) a conflict of interest of such significance that he or she should cease to hold the office, or

(e) is otherwise unfit to hold the office or is unable to discharge its functions.