The Service Police (Complaints etc.) Regulations 2023

Application of the Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009U.K.

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7.—(1) The Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009(1) applies in relation to such investigations with the following modifications.

(2) Any reference in that Order to a service policeman (other than in the expression “authorising service policeman”) is to be read as a reference to a person designated under regulation 36(2) of these Regulations.

(3) Any reference in that Order to an authorising service policeman is to be read as a reference to the Service Police Complaints Commissioner or to an investigating officer who is at least a deputy senior investigating officer.

(4) Article 2 of that Order is to be read as if the definition of “authorising service policeman” were omitted.

(5) Article 3(2) of that Order is to be read as if—

(a)for paragraph (a) there were substituted—

“(a)documentary evidence that they have been designated under regulation 36(2) of the Service Police (Complaints etc.) Regulations 2023,”;

(b)in paragraph (b) the words “whether he is in uniform or not” were omitted.

(6) That Order is to be read as if any reference to a person’s rank or rate, or to the name of a person’s unit or to its address and telephone number, were omitted.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 7 in force at 19.6.2023, see reg. 1(1)