The Armed Forces (Summary Appeal Court) Rules 2009

Interpretation: general U.K.

3.—(1) Any reference in these Rules to a numbered section is to that section of the Act unless otherwise stated.

(2) In these Rules—

“the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;

“the 1967 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 1967 M1 ;

“the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003;

“the CPIA Order” means the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Application to the Armed Forces) Order 2009 M2 ;

“advance information” has the meaning given by rule 42(2);

“bad character” has the meaning given by section 98 of the 2003 Act;

“civilian police force” means a UK police force or a British overseas territory police force;

[F1 “the complainant”, in relation to any offence (or alleged offence), means a person against or in relation to whom the offence was (or is alleged to have been) committed;]

“the court” means the Summary Appeal Court;

“DX” means document exchange;

“the judge advocate”, in relation to any proceedings, means the judge advocate specified for the proceedings under section 142(3);

“lay members” means those persons who are members of the court by virtue of section 142(1)(b) or (c);

“legal representative” means a person appointed under rule 41;

“live link” has the meaning given by rule 25(3)(a);

“pre-sentence report” has the meaning given by section 257; and

“unit” means—

(a)

a naval ship or establishment;

(b)

any body of members of Her Majesty's forces formed under the command of a person appointed to be the commanding officer of the body; or

(c)

an air force station.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in rule 3(2) inserted (16.11.2015) by The Armed Forces (Service Courts Rules) (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1812), rules 1, 3

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 80.

M2 S.I. 2009/988.