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The Armed Forces Act 2021 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2022

S.I. 2022/1095 · Made 25 October 2022

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Defence

Made 25th October 2022

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Armed Forces Act 2021f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2021 c.35.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, interpretation and extent
  2. 2Commencement of section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act
  3. 3Commencement of section 11 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Act
  4. 4Commencement of section 12 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Act
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation, interpretation and extent

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Armed Forces Act 2021 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2022.

(2)

In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2021.

(3)

These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the British Overseas Territories, except Gibraltar.

2Commencement of section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act

Section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act (Constitution of the Court Martial) come into force on 1 January 2023, in so far as they are not already in force.

3Commencement of section 11 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Act

Section 11 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Act (Service Police: complaints, misconduct etc) come into force on 1 November 2022, for the purpose only of appointing the Service Police Complaints Commissioner.

4Commencement of section 12 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Act

Section 12 (Framework for establishment of tri-service serious crime unit) of, and Schedule 5 (Tri-service serious crime unit) to, the Act come into force on 5 December 2022, in so far as they are not already in force.

Signature

Sarah Atherton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Defence

25th October 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring into force section 2 and Schedule 1 of the Armed Forces Act 2021 (c.35) (“the Act”) on 1 January 2023 and section 12 and Schedule 5 into force on 5 December 2022 in so far as they are not already in force. They partially also bring into force section 11 and Schedule 4 of the Act on 1 November 2022 for the purpose only of appointing the Service Police Complaints Commissioner.

Two earlier Commencement Regulations, S.I. 2022/471 (c.17) and S.I. 2022/625 (c.33), were made before the date of these Regulations.