{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-67",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-67.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/67",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": "Power of arrest for service offence",
  "text": "(1) A person who is reasonably suspected of being engaged in committing, or of having committed, a service offence may be arrested in accordance with subsection (2), (3), (4) or (5) by a person subject to service law.\n(2) An officer may be arrested under subsection (1)—\n(a) by an officer of superior rank or, if engaged in a mutiny, quarrel or disorder, by an officer of any rank;\n(b) by a service policeman; or\n(c) by a person who is lawfully exercising authority on behalf of a provost officer, and who—\n(i) is an officer; or\n(ii) is acting on the order of an officer.\n(3) A person of or below the rank or rate of warrant officer may be arrested under subsection (1)—\n(a) by an officer;\n(b) by a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer of superior rank or rate;\n(c) by a service policeman;\n(d) by a person who is lawfully exercising authority on behalf of a provost officer; or\n(e) if a member of a ship's company or an embarked force, by a person exercising authority as a member of the staff of the officer of the day.\n(4) A civilian subject to service discipline may be arrested under subsection (1)—\n(a) by an officer;\n(b) by a service policeman; or\n(c) by a person who is lawfully exercising authority on behalf of a provost officer.\n(5) Where none of subsections (2) to (4) applies in relation to the person to be arrested, that person may be arrested under subsection (1) by a service policeman.\n(6) The power of arrest conferred on any person by this section may be exercised—\n(a) personally;\n(b) by giving orders for the arrest of the person who is to be arrested; or\n(c) where that person is subject to service law, by ordering him into arrest.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 67(2)(c) substituted (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 3 para. 2; S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 67 modified (31.10.2009) by The Armed Forces (Naval Chaplains) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/826), regs. 1, 4(3) (with reg. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 67 in force at 28.3.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 67 in force at 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/section/67",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:24.063324+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}