{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministry-of-defence-police-act-1987/section-2D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministry-of-defence-police-act-1987/section-2D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/4",
  "legislation_title": "Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministry-of-defence-police-act-1987",
  "path": "section/2D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2D",
  "heading": "Exercise of powers and privileges in Scotland",
  "text": "(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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2D inserted (25.1.2018) by The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/46), art. 2(2)(a)(f), Sch. 2 para. 1 (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/4/section/2D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:55.373767+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."
}