Offences made under the In accordance with section 373(3) of the Armed Forces Act 2006

4 statutory instruments made under this Act create 14 criminal offences between them.

These are offences created by secondary legislation made under the Act — not the offences in the Act itself. An Act that creates a power to make regulations, and regulations that then create offences, is the ordinary route by which most of the criminal law is made, and it is the route this report follows.

Instruments made under it

• The Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009 2009 · 5 offences
• The Armed Forces (Court Martial) Rules 2009 2009 · 4 offences
• The Armed Forces (Alignment of Service Discipline Acts) Order 2008 2008 · 4 offences
• The Armed Forces (Enlistment) Regulations 2009 2009 · 1 offence