{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-210",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-210.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1811",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Armed Forces Code of Practice for Victims of Crime) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/210",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "210",
  "heading": "Information, referral to victim support services and needs assessments",
  "text": "The Service Police must:\n(1) conduct the interview without unjustified delay after the facts have been reported;\n(2) limit the number of interviews where possible and only carry out interviews where strictly necessary for the purposes of their investigation;\n(3) keep medical examinations to a minimum and carry them out only where strictly necessary for the purposes of the criminal proceedings;\n(4) allow the victim to be accompanied by a person of their choice, unless a reasoned decision has been made to the contrary;\n(5) take steps to ensure the victim does not have unnecessary contact with the suspect when the victim is being interviewed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 210 in force at 16.11.2015, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See, however, paragraphs 15 to 18 of this Code."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1811/schedule/paragraph/210",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:15.783148+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."
}