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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-armed-forces-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/17",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Armed Forces) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-armed-forces-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Codes of practice",
  "text": "The following revised codes of practice—\n(a) the Code of Practice for the Treatment and Questioning of Persons by the Service Police;\n(b) the Code of Practice for the Identification of Persons Suspected of Offences under the Service Discipline Acts;\n(c) the Code of Practice for the Tape Recording of Service Police Interviews with Suspects;\nfor persons other than police officers who are concerned with enquiries into offences under the service discipline Acts, shall come into operation on 1st February 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/17/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:11.012175+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."
}