{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-naval-chaplains-regulations-2009/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-naval-chaplains-regulations-2009/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/826",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Naval Chaplains) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-naval-chaplains-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nA naval chaplain is commissioned as such, and is not an officer. Regulation 3 ensures that for the purposes of the Armed Forces Act 2006 he is treated as if he were an officer, except that (like a chaplain in one of the other Services) he may not sit as a member of the Court Martial or the Summary Appeal Court.\nAlthough subject to service law, a naval chaplain has no rank, and is therefore outranked by no-one. Regulation 4 provides that the officers there specified are to be regarded as a naval chaplain’s superior officers for the purpose of certain service offences, and for that of an officer’s powers of arrest for a service offence.\nConversely, a naval chaplain outranks no-one. Since he is subject to service law, it follows that any officer (however junior) can give him a command. Regulation 5 enables him to disobey a command, without committing an offence of disobedience, unless the command is given by an officer of a specified rank or description.\nRegulation 6 enables a charge brought against a naval chaplain to be heard summarily, unless he is a principal chaplain or the Chaplain of the Fleet.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/826/note",
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  },
  "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."
}