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Armed Forces Act 1986

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12Power of court-martial to suspend sentence on appeal from Standing Civilian Court

(1)In paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to the [1976 c. 52.] Armed Forces Act 1976 (appeals from Standing Civilian Courts), after subparagraph (11) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(12)Where a court-martial passes a sentence on an appeal under this paragraph in a case in which the sentence of the Standing Civilian Court was suspended under paragraph 20(4) below, the court-martial may, if it thinks fit, direct that the suspension shall apply to the sentence of the court-martial in the same way as it would have applied to the sentence of the Standing Civilian Court.”

(2)Accordingly, in sub-paragraph (8) of that paragraph, after the word " above " there shall be inserted the words " and sub-paragraph (12) below ".

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