{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Conditional Release from Custody) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Liability to arrest for absconding or breaking conditions of bail",
  "text": "(1) If a person who has been granted bail under this Order and is under a duty to surrender to custody fails to do so at the time appointed for him to do so, a judge advocate may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person.\n(2) If a person who has been granted bail under this Order surrenders to custody at the time appointed for him to do so but then absents himself without leave before the hearing of any proceedings has begun or resumed in respect of that person, a judge advocate may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person; but no warrant shall be issued under this paragraph where that person is absent in accordance with leave given to him by or on behalf of a court or by a judge advocate.\n(3) The judge advocate may issue a warrant under paragraph (1) or (2) to a constable, or where the person to be arrested is subject to service law or a civilian subject to service discipline, a service policeman.\n(4) A person who has been granted bail under this Order and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court or a person may be arrested without warrant under paragraph (1) or (2) by a constable or, where the person is subject to service law or is a civilian subject to service discipline, by a service policeman—\n(a) if the constable or service policeman has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody;\n(b) if the constable or service policeman has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions; or\n(c) in a case where that person was granted bail with one or more surety or sureties, if a surety notifies a constable or service policeman in writing that that person is unlikely to surrender to custody and that for that reason the surety wishes to be relieved of his obligations as a surety.\n(5) A person arrested in pursuance of paragraph (4) shall be brought as soon as practicable before a judge advocate.\n(6) The judge advocate before whom a person is brought under paragraph (5) may, if of the opinion that that person—\n(a) is not likely to surrender to custody, or\n(b) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail,\ncommit him to custody or grant him bail subject to the same or different conditions, but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions (if any) as were originally imposed.\n(7) In this article—\n(a) “constable” includes any person (whether within or outside the United Kingdom) having powers corresponding with those of a constable;\n(b) “civilian subject to service discipline”, “service policeman” and “subject to service law” have the same meaning as in section 374 of the 2006 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/991/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:03.189477+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."
}