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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-code-of-practice-armed-forces-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/989",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) (Armed Forces) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-code-of-practice-armed-forces-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Revocation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) (Armed Forces) Order 2008 is revoked.\n(2) Where the Code applies in relation to a suspected or alleged service offence, the rules of common law which—\n(a) were effective immediately before 1st April 2008, and\n(b) relate to the matter mentioned in paragraph (3),\nshall not apply in relation to the suspected or alleged service offence.\n(3) The matter is the revealing of material by a service policeman charged with the duty of conducting a service investigation to a person involved in the prosecution of service offences.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/648. Article 6 of the Order made provision for the non-application of certain common law rules which were effective immediately before 1st April 2008."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/989/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:04.936840+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."
}