{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-part-5-of-the-armed-forces-act-2006-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111479629",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Part 5 of the Armed Forces Act 2006) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-part-5-of-the-armed-forces-act-2006-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“accused” means a person who has been charged with a service offence;\n“case papers” means in relation to a case or charge—\n(a) all reports relating to the case or charge and written by a service police force;\n(b) the following other papers relating to the case or charge prepared or obtained by a service police force—\n(i) all witness statements;\n(ii) all other records of evidence, including a summary or transcript of all tape-recorded interviews;\n(iii) a list of all exhibits and a statement of where any which are not documentary exhibits are held;\n(iv) all documentary exhibits;\n(v) all formal disciplinary records of the suspect maintained and held by any of Her Majesty’s forces;\n(vi) if no formal disciplinary record of the suspect is maintained and held by any of Her Majesty’s forces, a list of his convictions (if any) for a service offence and of his convictions (if any) by a civilian court;\n(vii) all documents to be provided, in accordance with a code of practice made by virtue of an order under section 78(2)(b) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, to a person involved in the prosecution of service offences; and\n(c) all papers equivalent to those within paragraphs (a) and (b), prepared by a UK police force or an overseas police force and provided by that force to a service police force;\n“Court Martial rules” means rules made under section 163;\n“DSP” means Director of Service Prosecutions;\n“hearing” means, with respect to an accused—\n(a) a hearing before a judge advocate under section 105(1) in relation to the accused;\n(b) a hearing before a judge advocate conducting a review under section 108(1), 110(4) or 171(2) in relation to the accused; or\n(c) any other hearing under the Act before a judge advocate in relation to a charge against the accused;\n“prescribed officer” means the officer of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 114;\n“Schedule 2 offence” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the Act;\n“serious injury” means a fracture, a deep cut, a deep laceration or an injury causing damage to an internal organ or the impairment of a bodily function;\n“suspect” (in the definition of “case papers” in this regulation)—\n(d) where regulation 7 or 9 applies, means the person whom the service policeman considers there is sufficient evidence to charge with a service offence;\n(e) where regulation 10 applies, means the person concerned (within the meaning of section 121(4)).\n(2) Unless otherwise specified, a reference in these Regulations to a numbered section is a reference to that section of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 25. A new section 78 is substituted by paragraph 137 of Schedule 16 to the Armed Forces Act 2006."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479629/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:23.995041+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."
}