{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-inquiries-regulations-2008/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-inquiries-regulations-2008/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1651",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Inquiries) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-inquiries-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Restrictions on admissibility of evidence",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), evidence given by a person to a service inquiry panel shall not be admissible against a person at a summary hearing or in proceedings before a civilian court or a service court.\n(2) Evidence given before a service inquiry panel may be admissible in proceedings referred to in paragraph (1) for—\n(a) an offence against section 42 of the Act where the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales is an offence mentioned in sub-paragraph (b);\n(b) an offence under section 2 or 5 of the Perjury Act 1911.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1 & 2 Geo 5 c.6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1651/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:29:17.298047+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."
}