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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-part-5-of-the-armed-forces-act-2006-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "CO to ensure service police aware of certain circumstances",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 114, the following are circumstances of a prescribed description—\n(a) an allegation has been made which would indicate to a reasonable person, or there are other circumstances which would indicate to a reasonable person, that a person subject to service law has or may have been the victim of—\n(i) a course of conduct by a person subject to service law, involving on at least two occasions an assault in which that individual participated as a principal offender or as a secondary party; or\n(ii) an offence under section 42 as respects which the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales is the offence under section 4 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, committed by a person subject to service law;\n(b) an allegation has been made which would indicate to a reasonable person, or there are other circumstances which would indicate to a reasonable person, that a person subject to service law has or may have been the victim of an assault causing serious injury, inflicted by a person of superior rank or rate while the assailant was otherwise carrying out his duties;\n(c) there are what appear to the prescribed officer to be reasonable grounds to believe that the death of any person, or serious injury to a relevant person, has occurred in a relevant place, unless the prescribed officer is satisfied that there is no allegation which would indicate to a reasonable person, or circumstances which would indicate to a reasonable person, that the death or injury was, or may have been, the result of a service offence committed by a person of whom he is the commanding officer;\n(d) the death of a person has occurred and—\n(i) it appears to the prescribed officer that the person had at any time been held in a relevant place in service custody; and\n(ii) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the misconduct, during the period that person was in such custody, of a person subject to service law or a civilian subject to service discipline may have caused (directly or indirectly), or may have contributed to, the death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c.. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479629/regulation/3",
    "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."
}