{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-powers-of-stop-and-search-search-seizure-and-retention-order-2009/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-powers-of-stop-and-search-search-seizure-and-retention-order-2009/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111480021",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-powers-of-stop-and-search-search-seizure-and-retention-order-2009",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Record of search by service policeman",
  "text": "(1) Where a service policeman has carried out a search in the exercise of the power conferred by section 75 of the Act, he shall make a record of it in writing unless it is not practicable to do so.\n(2) If—\n(a) a service policeman is required by paragraph (1) to make a record of a search, but\n(b) it is not practicable to make the record on the spot,\nhe shall make it as soon as is practicable after the completion of the search.\n(3) The record of a search of a person shall include a note of his name, if the service policeman knows it.\n(4) If a service policeman does not know the name of a person whom he has searched, the record of the search shall include a note otherwise describing that person.\n(5) The record of the search of a vehicle shall include a note describing the vehicle.\n(6) The record of a search of a person or a vehicle—\n(a) shall state—\n(i) the object of the search;\n(ii) the grounds for making it;\n(iii) the date and time when it was made;\n(iv) the place where it was made;\n(v) whether anything, and if so what, was found;\n(vi) whether any, and if so what, injury to a person or damage to property appears to the service policeman to have resulted from the search; and\n(b) shall identify the service policeman making it.\n(7) If a service policeman who conducted a search of a person made a record of it, the person who was searched shall be entitled to a copy of the record if he asks for one before the end of the period specified in paragraph (9).\n(8) If—\n(a) the owner of a vehicle which has been searched or the person who was in charge of the vehicle at the time when it was searched asks for a copy of the record of the search before the end of the period specified in paragraph (9), and\n(b) the service policeman who conducted the search made a record of it,\nthe person who made the request shall be entitled to a copy.\n(9) The period mentioned in paragraphs (7) and (8) is the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which the search was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111480021/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:19.493612+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."
}