SCHEDULES
C1SCHEDULE 1 Amendments Relating to Trial of Civilians, Etc.
Standing Civilian Courts : appeal and suspending sentence
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Schedule 3 to the Armed Forces Act 1976 M1 (Standing Civilian Courts) shall be amended as follows.
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In paragraph 18(3) (appeal from Standing Civilian Court to court-martial within 21 days of sentence) for “21” there shall be substituted “40”.
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The following shall be substituted for paragraph 20(4) (power of reviewing authority to suspend sentence of Standing Civilian Court where person is in custody under the sentence):—
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A reviewing authority may at any time suspend a sentence of a Standing Civilian Court.
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The following shall be inserted after paragraph 20(5) :—
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At any time while any sentence is so suspended, the suspension may be determined by the reviewing authority who suspended the sentence.
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In paragraph 20(6) (determination of suspension in certain circumstances) after “fresh offence” there shall be inserted “then, without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (5A) above,”.
The text of Schs. 1, 2, 3 Pt. II (paras. 3–10), 4, 5 (in part) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.