{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009/article-2.json",
  "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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the 1955 Acts” means the Army Act 1955 and the Air Force Act 1955;\n“the 1957 Act” means the Naval Discipline Act 1957;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“bail” means release from custody subject to conditions, and “released on bail” and other cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“child” means a person under the age of fourteen;\n“court administration officer” means the officer appointed under section 363(2) of the 2006 Act;\n“court-martial” means a court-martial constituted under either of the 1955 Acts or the 1957 Act;\n“custodian” means the governor, keeper or commandant of the prison or other place of detention in which the person to be granted bail is detained;\n“Director of Service Prosecutions” means the person appointed under section 364 of the 2006 Act;\n“judge advocate” has the same meaning as in section 362 of the 2006 Act;\n“surrender to custody” means, in relation to a person who has been granted bail, surrendering himself to the custody of a court or person (according to the requirements of the grant of bail) at the time and place for the time being appointed for him to do so;\n“vary”, in relation to bail, means imposing further conditions after bail is granted, or varying or rescinding conditions; and\n“young person” means (except in article 4) a person who has attained the age of fourteen but is under the age of seventeen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1955 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1955 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2006 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/991/article/2",
    "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."
}