SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16Minor and consequential amendments

Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)

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(1)

Schedule 6 to that Act (modifications for armed forces of provisions about evidence of bad character) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 3—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1) for “courts-martial” substitute “ the Court Martial ”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (2)—

(i)

in paragraph (a) for “judge and jury” substitute “ a judge and jury ”;

(ii)

also in paragraph (a) for “court-martial” substitute “ the Court Martial ”;

(iii)

in paragraph (c) for “dissolve” substitute “ discharge ”;

(c)

in sub-paragraph (4)—

(i)

in the paragraph substituted by paragraph (a), for the words from “section 115B(2) of the Army” to “1957” substitute “ section 167 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 ”;

(ii)

in paragraph (c) for “dissolve” substitute “ discharge ”;

(d)

in the subsection substituted by sub-paragraph (5), for “dissolve” substitute “ discharge ”.

(3)

In the subsection substituted by paragraph 4 of that Schedule—

(a)

in paragraph (a) for “a court-martial” substitute “ the Court Martial ”;

(b)

in paragraph (b) for “a Standing Civilian Court” substitute “ the Summary Appeal Court or the Service Civilian Court ”.

(4)

For paragraph 6 substitute—

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In this Schedule “service court” means—

(a)

the Court Martial;

(b)

the Summary Appeal Court;

(c)

the Service Civilian Court; or

(d)

the Court Martial Appeal Court.”