# The Armed Forces (Part 5 of the Armed Forces Act 2006) Regulations 2009, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;
“accused” means a person who has been charged with a service offence;
“case papers” means in relation to a case or charge—
(a) all reports relating to the case or charge and written by a service police force;
(b) the following other papers relating to the case or charge prepared or obtained by a service police force—
(i) all witness statements;
(ii) all other records of evidence, including a summary or transcript of all tape-recorded interviews;
(iii) a list of all exhibits and a statement of where any which are not documentary exhibits are held;
(iv) all documentary exhibits;
(v) all formal disciplinary records of the suspect maintained and held by any of Her Majesty’s forces;
(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;
(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
(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;
“Court Martial rules” means rules made under section 163;
“DSP” means Director of Service Prosecutions;
“hearing” means, with respect to an accused—
(a) a hearing before a judge advocate under section 105(1) in relation to the accused;
(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
(c) any other hearing under the Act before a judge advocate in relation to a charge against the accused;
“prescribed officer” means the officer of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 114;
“Schedule 2 offence” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the Act;
“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;
“suspect” (in the definition of “case papers” in this regulation)—
(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;
(e) where regulation 10 applies, means the person concerned (within the meaning of section 121(4)).
(2) Unless otherwise specified, a reference in these Regulations to a numbered section is a reference to that section of the Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479629/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-part-5-of-the-armed-forces-act-2006-regulations-2009/regulation-2
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