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SCHEDULE 6E+WEvidence of bad character: armed forces

4Section 110, as it applies in relation to proceedings before service courts, has effect with the substitution of the following for subsection (1)—

(1)Where the court makes a relevant ruling—

(a)it must state in open court (but, in the case of a ruling by a judge advocate in proceedings before a court-martial, in the absence of the other members of the court) its reasons for the ruling;

(b)if it is a Standing Civilian Court, it must cause the ruling and the reasons for it to be entered in the note of the court’s proceedings.