Section 71A Section 71: meaning of “authorised person”F1

In section 71 “authorised person” means a person specified in the first column of the following table who is authorised by the person specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of the table to receive information under that section.

In the table—

• “member of civilian police staff” means a person who is not a constable but who—

  1. (a)

     is—

     1. (i)

        employed, or engaged to provide services, for the purposes of a body of constables, and

     2. (ii)

        under the direction and control of a person who has the direction and control of a body of constables, or

  2. (b)

     is under the direction and control of the chief constable of the Ministry of Defence Police;

• “officer”, in relation to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, means an officer of the Ombudsman within the meaning of Part 7 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (see section 50 of that Act);

• “relevant Provost Marshal” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a member of a service police force—

     1. (i)

        the Provost Marshal of that service police force, or

     2. (ii)

        in the case of a member of the tri-service serious crime unit described in section 375(1A) of the Armed Forces Act 2006, the Provost Marshal for serious crime;

  2. (b)

     in relation to any other person who is under the direction and control of a Provost Marshal, that Provost Marshal;

• “service police force” has the same meaning as in the Armed Forces Act 2006 (see section 375(1) of that Act).