{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-entry-search-and-seizure-order-2003/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-entry-search-and-seizure-order-2003/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2273",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Entry, Search and Seizure) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-entry-search-and-seizure-order-2003",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Duty to make records concerning searches",
  "text": "(1) Where a service policeman has carried out a search in the exercise of the power conferred by section 2, he shall make a record of it in writing unless it is not practicable to do so.\n(2) If—\n(a) a service policeman is required by paragraph (1) to make a record of a search; but\n(b) it is not practicable to make the record on the spot,\nhe shall make it as soon as is practicable after the completion of the search.\n(3) The record of a search of a person shall include a note of his name, if the service policeman knows it.\n(4) If a service policeman does not know the name of a person whom he has searched, the record of the search shall include a note otherwise describing that person.\n(5) The record of a search of a vehicle shall include a note describing the vehicle.\n(6) The record of a search of a person or a vehicle—\n(a) shall state—\n(i) the object of the search;\n(ii) the grounds for making it;\n(iii) the date and time when it was made;\n(iv) the place where it was made;\n(v) whether anything, and if so what, was found;\n(vi) whether any, and if so what, injury to a person or damage to property appears to the service policeman to have resulted from the search; and\n(b) shall identify the service policeman making it.\n(7) If a service policeman who conducted a search of a person made a record of it, the person who was searched shall be entitled to a copy of the record if he asks for one before the end of the period specified in paragraph (9).\n(8) If—\n(a) the owner of a vehicle which has been searched or the person who was in charge of the vehicle at the time when it was searched asks for a copy of the record of the search before the end of the period specified in paragraph (9); and\n(b) the service policeman who conducted the search made a record of it,\nthe person who made the request shall be entitled to a copy.\n(9) The period mentioned in paragraphs (7) and (8) is the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which the search was made.\n(10) The requirements imposed by this article with regard to records of searches of vehicles shall also apply to records of searches of vessels, aircraft and hovercraft.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2273/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:12.692042+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."
}