{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-evidence-of-illegal-absence-and-transfer-to-service-custody-regulations-2009/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-evidence-of-illegal-absence-and-transfer-to-service-custody-regulations-2009/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Certificates to be signed and authorised persons",
  "text": "(1) A certificate made under this Part shall be signed by an authorised person.\n(2) The following persons are authorised to sign certificates required to be issued by civilian police officers—\n(a) the person in charge of the police station to which the relevant person is brought after arrest or to where the relevant person surrendered; or\n(b) a person authorised by the person in charge of that police station to act on his behalf.\n(3) The following persons are authorised to sign certificates required to be issued by a court of summary jurisdiction—\n(a) in England, Wales and the Isle of Man, a Justice of the Peace or the Clerk of the Court;\n(b) in Scotland, the Clerk of the Court;\n(c) in Northern Ireland, a resident Magistrate or the Clerk of Petty Sessions for the Petty Sessions district in which the court sat;\n(d) in Jersey and Guernsey, a Magistrate or a person for the time being authorised to act as a Magistrate;\n(e) in Alderney, the Chairman of the Court of Alderney or the person for the time being authorised to act as Chairman of that Court;\n(f) in Sark, the Seneschal or the Deputy Seneschal; and\n(g) in a British overseas territory, a Magistrate or the official (by whatever designation known) who exercises in the court, functions similar to those exercised in England by the clerk of a court of summary jurisdiction.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}