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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-provisions-order-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111159866",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2017",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Application of 2016 Act to Ministry of Defence Police",
  "text": "After section 2C of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987 insert—\n“Exercise of powers and privileges in Scotland\n2D (1) Where a member of the Ministry of Defence Police exercises in Scotland any power or privilege of a constable, Parts 1 and 2 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (in this section “the 2016 Act”) apply in relation to the exercise as though the power or privilege were exercised by a constable of the Police Service of Scotland.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—\n(a) in section 64 of the 2016 Act (police custody), references to a person arrested by a constable are to be read as including a person arrested by a member of the Ministry of Defence Police,\n(b) section 69 of the 2016 Act (publication of information by police) does not apply.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c.4. Section 2C is inserted by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15), Schedule 4, paragraphs 48 and 50; it is amended by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22), Schedule 8, paragraph 31."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111159866/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:14.523018+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."
}