{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-application-to-customs-and-excise-amendment-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-application-to-customs-and-excise-amendment-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1860",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-application-to-customs-and-excise-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Customs and Excise) Order 1985 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) In Schedule 2, Part 1, Column 2 for the word “grade” there shall be substituted the word “title”.\n(b) For Schedule 2, Part 2 there shall be substituted the following:—\n“Equivalent titles of officers\nWhere in the Act an act or thing is to be done by a constable of the rank specified in Column 1 below, that same act or thing shall, in the application of the Act to Customs and Excise, be done by an officer of at least an equivalent title specified in Column 2 below—\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nRank of constable\nTitle of officer\nThe abbreviations used in Column 2 above shall have the following meaning:—\n“PSD” shall mean “Passenger Services Division”\n“EFIT” shall mean “Excise Fraud Investigation Team”\n“EVO” shall mean “Excise Verification Officer”\n“EVU” shall mean “Excise Verification Unit”\n“LVOIT” shall mean “Local Value Added Tax Office Investigation Team”.\nThe job bands referred to in Column 2 above are set from time to time by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise\nsergeant\nAnti-Smuggling Officer (2);\nCargo Team Leader (1);\nCargo Team Member (3);\nDrug Dog Unit Team Leader;\nEFIT Team Member;\nEVO (2);\nLVOIT Officer (1);\nPSD Team Member (1);\nRoad Fuel Testing Officer;\nSpecialist Investigator (1); or\nany other officer within job bands 5 or 6\ninspector\nAnti-Smuggling Team Leader;\nCargo Team Leader (2);\nEFIT Team Leader;\nEVU Team Leader;\nLVOIT Officer (2);\nPSD Team Manager;\nRoad Fuel Control Officer;\nSpecialist Investigator (2);\nSpecialist Investigator (3); or\nany other officer within job bands 7 or 8\nsuperintendent\nAnti-Smuggling Manager;\nCargo Operational Manager;\nInvestigation Team Leader;\nPSD Operations Manager; or\nany other officer within job band 9\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1800."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1860/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:53.349832+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."
}