SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Procedure for dealing with offences under Services Acts.

Part IIITrial of offences by court-martial

Army Act 1955 (c. 18)

27(1)Section 96 (decisions of courts-martial) shall be amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1), for the words from “every” to “court-martial” there shall be substituted the words “the finding of a court-martial and any sentence awarded”.

(3)After subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(1A)The judge advocate shall not be entitled to vote on the finding.

(4)In subsection (3)—

(a)after the word “court” in the second place it appears there shall be inserted the words “entitled to vote on the finding”; and

(b)for the words “the members” in the second place they appear there shall be substituted the words “those members”.

(5)In subsection (5), the words from “or on” to “finding” shall cease to have effect.