# The Armed Forces (Part 5 of the Armed Forces Act 2006) Regulations 2009, Regulation 3: CO to ensure service police aware of certain circumstances


For the purposes of section 114, the following are circumstances of a prescribed description—
(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—
(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
(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;
(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;
(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;
(d) the death of a person has occurred and—
(i) it appears to the prescribed officer that the person had at any time been held in a relevant place in service custody; and
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479629/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-part-5-of-the-armed-forces-act-2006-regulations-2009/regulation-3
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