Explanatory Notes

Armed Forces Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 52

8 November 2006

Commentary

First Group of Parts – Discipline

Part 4 – Custody
Chapter 1 – Custody without charge
Section 103: Custody without charge: other cases

228.This section (as with its current counterparts) sets out the circumstances in which the provisions of sections 98 to 102 are to apply other than when a person has been arrested under section 67, namely when a person is transferred to service custody following an arrest by the civilian police pursuant to certain provisions of the Act or in any other case where a person who is arrested by an officer of a UK or British overseas territory police force is transferred into service custody.