{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-underwater-test-and-evaluation-centre-byelaws-2016/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-underwater-test-and-evaluation-centre-byelaws-2016/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/654",
  "legislation_title": "The British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre Byelaws 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-underwater-test-and-evaluation-centre-byelaws-2016",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Power of removal",
  "text": "(1) A constable or enforcement officer who reasonably believes that a person has committed an offence under—\n(a) byelaw 3(1)(a), or\n(b) byelaw 5(2)(a),\nmay remove that person from the protected land area, the inner sea area, the protected sea area or the controlled land area, where he or she believes the offence was committed.\n(2) A constable or enforcement officer who reasonably believes that a person—\n(a) has committed an offence under byelaw 4(1) or 4(2) and considers it necessary to prevent a further offence under that byelaw being committed by that person, or\n(b) is failing to comply with a direction under byelaw 7(1)(a) to leave the outer sea areas,\nmay remove that person from the outer sea areas.\n(3) A constable or enforcement officer who reasonably believes that a person is failing to comply with a direction under byelaw 7(1)(a) to leave part of the outer sea areas, may remove that person from that part of the areas.\n(4) A constable or enforcement officer who reasonably believes that a person—\n(a) has committed an offence under byelaw 5(4) and considers it necessary to prevent a further offence under that byelaw being committed by that person, or\n(b) is failing to comply with a direction to leave under byelaw 7(2)(a),\nmay remove that person from the controlled land area.\n(5) The appointed person may authorise any person to remove an object from the inner sea area or the protected sea area, other than an object which has been left in either of those areas—\n(a) in accordance with written permission given under byelaw 6(2)(a);\n(b) for a military purpose by a person authorised by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence to use that area for such a purpose; or\n(c) by a person referred to in byelaw 6(2)(b), 6(2)(c) or 6(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/654/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:44.638092+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."
}