{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-disclosure-scotland-act-2020-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2025/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-disclosure-scotland-act-2020-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2025/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348268720",
  "legislation_title": "The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-disclosure-scotland-act-2020-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2025",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of UK law-enforcement body, chief officer and payable institution",
  "text": "In this Order, a reference to—\n(a) a UK law-enforcement body is to a body specified in the first column of the following table;\n(b) the chief officer of a UK law-enforcement body is to the person specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of the table;\n(c) the payable institution in relation to a UK law-enforcement body is to the person specified in the corresponding entry in the third column of the table.\nUK law-enforcement body\nChief officer\nPayable institution\na police force in England and Wales within the meaning of section 101(1) of the Police Act 1996\nthe chief officer of police as defined by section 101(1) of the Police Act 1996\nthe local policing body as defined by section 101(1) of the Police Act 1996\nthe Police Service of Northern Ireland\nthe body’s chief constable\nthe Northern Ireland Policing Board\nthe Royal Navy Police\nthe body’s Provost Marshal\nthe body’s Provost Marshal\nthe Royal Military Police\nthe body’s Provost Marshal\nthe body’s Provost Marshal\nthe Royal Air Force Police\nthe body’s Provost Marshal\nthe body’s Provost Marshal\nthe Ministry of Defence Police\nthe body’s chief constable\nthe Ministry of Defence Police Committee\nthe British Transport Police\nthe body’s chief constable\nthe British Transport Police Authority\nthe Civil Nuclear Constabulary\nthe body’s chief constable\nthe Civil Nuclear Police Authority\nthe Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs\nany of the Commissioners\nthe Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs\nthe National Crime Agency\nthe body’s Director general\nthe body\nthe tri-service serious crime unit (as defined in section 375(1A) of the Armed Forces Act 2006\nthe Provost Marshal for serious crime\nthe Provost Marshal for serious crime",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16. Section 101(1) was relevantly amended by section 96(2) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c. 52. Subsection (1A) of section 375 was inserted by section 12(4) of the Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268720/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:36.830384+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."
}