{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-evidence-of-illegal-absence-and-transfer-to-service-custody-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-evidence-of-illegal-absence-and-transfer-to-service-custody-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1108",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Evidence of Illegal Absence and Transfer to Service Custody) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-evidence-of-illegal-absence-and-transfer-to-service-custody-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations\n“the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“authorised person” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 7;\n“civilian policeman” means a member of a UK police force or a British overseas territories police force;\n“illegal absence” means absence without leave or desertion, and “illegally absent” shall be construed accordingly;\n“relevant person” means—\n(a) a person subject to service law who is suspected of being illegally absent or\n(b) the person who is arrested under a warrant issued under section 317(1) of the Act;\n“service custody” has the same meaning as in sections 313 to 319 of the Act; and\n“unit” means—\n(a) a naval ship or establishment;\n(b) any body of members of Her Majesty’s forces formed under the command of a person appointed to be the commanding officer of the body;\n(c) an air force station.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1108/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:38.218431+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."
}