{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/schedule-5/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/schedule-5/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/35",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23)",
  "text": "(1) Section 36 (approval required for authorisations to take effect) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) a member of the tri-service serious crime unit;”.\n(3) In subsection (6)—\n(a) after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) where the authorisation was granted by the Provost Marshal for serious crime or a person entitled to act for the Provost Marshal for serious crime by virtue of section 34(4)(ha), that Provost Marshal;”;\n(b) in paragraph (f), for “(a) to (i)” substitute “(a) to (h) or (i)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 18 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 24(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 18 in force at 1.5.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 18 in force at 5.12.2022 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2022/1095, reg. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/35/schedule/5/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:58.432340+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}