12(1)The operation of a compensation order made by a court-martial shall be suspended—U.K.
(a)in any case until the end of the period specified under Part II of the M1Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968 as the period within which an application for leave to appeal must be lodged; and
(b)if such an application is duly lodged, until either the application is finally refused or it is withdrawn or the appeal is determined or abandoned.
(3)Where a compensation order has been made against any person in respect of an offence taken into consideration in determining his sentence—
(a)the order shall cease to have effect if he successfully petitions or appeals against his conviction of the offence or all the offences of which he was convicted in the proceedings in which the order was made; and
(b)he may petition or appeal against the order as if it were part of the sentence imposed for the offence in respect of which it was made.
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Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions