{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-application-to-customs-and-excise-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-application-to-customs-and-excise-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/292",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence (Application to Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-application-to-customs-and-excise-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Police and Criminal Evidence (Application to Customs and Excise) Order (Northern Ireland) 1989 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) In Schedule 2, Part I, Column 2 for the word “grade” there shall be substituted the word “title”.\n(b) For Schedule 2, Part II there shall be substituted the following:—\n“Equivalent titles of officers\nWhere in the 1989 Order, an act or thing is to be done by a constable or police officer of the rank specified in column 1 below, that same act or thing shall, in the application of the 1989 Order 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 or police officer\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 as set from time to time by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise\nsuperintendent\nAnti-Smuggling Manager;\nCargo Operational Team Manager;\nInvestigation Team Leader;\nPSD Operations Manager; or any other officer within job band 9\ninspector/chief inspector\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 (3); or any other officer within job bands 7 or 8\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 any other officer within job bands 5 or 6\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1989/465"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/292/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:04.155730+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."
}