SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16Minor and consequential amendments

Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)

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In section 19(5) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (decision as to allocation), for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b)

a previous conviction of a service offence within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (“conviction” here including anything that under section 376(1) and (2) of that Act is to be treated as a conviction).”