{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maritime-enforcement-powers-persons-of-a-specified-description-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maritime-enforcement-powers-persons-of-a-specified-description-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1188",
  "legislation_title": "The Maritime Enforcement Powers (Persons of a Specified Description) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maritime-enforcement-powers-persons-of-a-specified-description-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specification of Ministry of Defence police",
  "text": "A member of the Ministry of Defence Police (within the meaning of section 1 of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987 (the Ministry of Defence Police)) is a person of a specified description for the purposes of—\n(a) section 84(3)(g) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (“the Act”) (application of maritime enforcement powers: England and Wales);\n(b) section 96(3)(e) of the Act (application of maritime enforcement powers: Scotland); and\n(c) section 107(3)(e) of the Act (application of maritime enforcement powers: Northern Ireland).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c.4. Section 1 was amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 7 to the Police Act 1996 (c.16), paragraph 16 of Schedule 4 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (c.32), section 78(2) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c.32), section 79(3) of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30) and by S.I. 2013/602."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1188/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:32.524796+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."
}