The Armed Forces (Entry, Search and Seizure) (Amendment) Order 2008
Article 12 of the Armed Forces (Entry, Search and Seizure) Order 2003 confers power to enter and search premises in which a person has been arrested under the Army Act 1955 (c.18), the Air Force Act 1955 (c.19) or the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (c.53), and article 13 of that Order confers power to enter and search premises occupied or controlled by a person who has been so arrested. The Armed Forces (Alignment of Service Discipline Acts) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1694) amends the 1955 Acts and the 1957 Act by inserting in each of them a new provision enabling a service policeman to arrest a person reasonably suspected of being about to commit a service offence. Articles 2(2) and 3 of this Order make consequential amendments to articles 12 and 13 of the 2003 Order, so that the powers of entry and search conferred by those articles do not apply in relation to a person arrested under this new power.