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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-alcohol-limits-for-prescribed-safety-critical-duties-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111100455",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Alcohol Limits for Prescribed Safety-Critical Duties) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-alcohol-limits-for-prescribed-safety-critical-duties-regulations-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) (“the 2006 Act”) creates a power to test for drugs and alcohol in relation to the performance of safety-critical duties, and section 20A of the 2006 Act makes it an offence to have more than a prescribed level of alcohol in the body when a person is performing or might reasonably expect to be called on to perform a prescribed safety-critical duty.\nRegulation 3 prescribes higher and lower limits for alcohol in breath, blood and urine.\nRegulation 4 prescribes the duties which are subject to the higher alcohol limit, and regulation 5 prescribes the duties which are subject to the lower alcohol limit.\nUnder section 93F of the 2006 Act a person who has provided a specimen of breath for testing may require it to be replaced with a blood or urine specimen, if the specimen of breath contains no more than a prescribed proportion of alcohol. Regulation 6 prescribes the proportion of alcohol. The proportion prescribed depends on the offence for which the person suspected is being tested.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111100455/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:28.099574+00:00"
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  "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."
}