UK Offence Report

The Thetford Range Byelaws 2011

UK Statutory Instrument 2011 No. 1142 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
5 April 2011
In force from
5 August 2011
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Public order, protest, anti-social behaviour and street offences
Made under
Military Lands Act 1892

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Byelaws) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Part II of the Military Lands Act 1892 (c.43) (“the 1892 Act”) provides for the making of byelaws for regulating the use of land held for military purposes and for securing the safety of the public against danger arising from that use. These byelaws regulate the area of land known as the Thetford Range in Norfolk, East Anglia (referred to as the Range Area in these byelaws). Byelaw 5 provides that there is no public access to the Range Area at any time. The Range Area is leased and it is a condition of that lease that no rights of access are granted to the public. This byelaw does not affect any rights of access reserved to the owner of the Range Area. Byelaw 7 provides that it is an offence to contravene byelaw 5. The enforcement powers of constables and authorised officers are set out in section 17(2) of the 1892 Act. Constables are no longer able to exercise the power of arrest set out in that section but are able instead to use the powers of arrest set out in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c.60). By virtue of section 17(2) of the 1892 Act, any person who commits an offence against any byelaw made under the Act is liable on conviction before a court of summary jurisdiction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale. At the time of printing the maximum fine payable is five hundred pounds (£500). A copy of these byelaws may be inspected on the Ministry of Defence website— http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/MicroSite/DE/OurPublications/Byelaws/EastAnglia/ Copies may be inspected on signboards erected locally. Copies may also be obtained from the Librarian, Defence Estates, Kingston Road, Sutton Coldfield B75 7RL.

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