Statutory Instruments
Defence
Police
Made
30th November 2017
Laid before Parliament
4th December 2017
Coming into force
1st January 2018
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 84(3)(g), 96(3)(e) and 107(3)(e) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017(1):
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Maritime Enforcement Powers (Persons of a Specified Description) Regulations 2017.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st January 2018.
2. A member of the Ministry of Defence Police (within the meaning of section 1 of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987(2) (the Ministry of Defence Police)) is a person of a specified description for the purposes of—
(a)section 84(3)(g) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (“the Act”) (application of maritime enforcement powers: England and Wales);
(b)section 96(3)(e) of the Act (application of maritime enforcement powers: Scotland); and
(c)section 107(3)(e) of the Act (application of maritime enforcement powers: Northern Ireland).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Defence
Tobias Ellwood
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Defence
30th November 2017
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide that members of the Ministry of Defence Police are persons of a specified description, and therefore law enforcement officers, for the purposes of sections 84(3)(g), 96(3)(e) and 107(3)(e) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c.3). This ensures that they will be able to exercise the maritime enforcement powers given to law enforcement officers by Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of Part 4 of that Act when those powers are brought into force.
No impact assessment has been produced in relation to these Regulations.
1987 c.4. Section 1 was amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 7 to the Police Act 1996 (c.16), paragraph 16 of Schedule 4 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (c.32), section 78(2) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c.32), section 79(3) of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30) and by S.I. 2013/602.