Armed Forces Act 2006

[F1 Sharing research with other lay members U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (13.4.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 14 para. 3; S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 80 (with Sch. 2 paras. 3(c), 4(c))

3 (1) It is an offence for a lay member of the Court Martial for proceedings intentionally to disclose information to another lay member of that court for the proceedings during the trial period if— U.K.

(a) the lay member contravened paragraph 2 in the process of obtaining the information, and

(b) the information has not been provided to the Court Martial during the course of the proceedings.

(2) Information has been provided to the Court Martial during the course of the proceedings if (and only if) it has been provided as part of—

(a) evidence presented in the proceedings,

(b) information provided to a lay member or the lay members during the trial period by the court administration officer or a member of the Military Court Service, or

(c) other information provided to a lay member or the lay members during the trial period by, or with the permission of, the judge advocate dealing with the issue.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable to any punishment mentioned in the Table in section 164, but a sentence of imprisonment imposed in respect of the offence must not exceed two years.]