{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-unfitness-to-stand-trial-and-insanity-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-unfitness-to-stand-trial-and-insanity-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1213",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Unfitness to Stand Trial and Insanity) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-unfitness-to-stand-trial-and-insanity-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1983 Act” means the Mental Health Act 1983;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“designated officer” has the meaning given in section 37(1) of the Courts Act 2003;\n“duly approved” has the meaning given in section 172(1) of the 2006 Act;\n“judge advocate” means the judge advocate specified under section 155(5) of the 2006 Act for proceedings in which a service supervision order falls to be considered;\n“local justice area” has the meaning given in section 8 of the Courts Act 2003 and “local justice area concerned” shall be interpreted in accordance with regulation 5(2) below;\n“local probation board” means a local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000;\n“local social services authority” has the meaning given in section 145(1) of the 1983 Act;\n“local social services authority area” means an area for which a local social services authority is responsible;\n“service supervision order” means, subject to regulation 18, a service supervision order made by the Court Martial under section 169(2) of the 2006 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1213/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:11.891107+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."
}