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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-entry-search-and-seizure-order-2003/article-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application to searches carried out by virtue of section 4",
  "text": "Articles 3 and 4 shall apply to the exercise by virtue of section 4 of the powers conferred by section 2—\n(a) by that person’s commanding officer, or\n(b) by any member of Her Majesty’s forces who is authorised by that person’s commanding officer,\nas they apply to the exercise of those powers by a service policeman.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the purposes of Part 2, “commanding officer” is defined by section 16(5)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2273/article/5",
    "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."
}