Armed Forces Act 2006

Valid from 28/03/2009

180 Transfer of service community order to Scotland or Northern Ireland U.K.

(1) In Schedule 9 to the 2003 Act (transfer of community orders to Scotland or Northern Ireland)—

(a) “community order” includes a service community order under this Act; and

(b) in the provisions mentioned in subsection (2), “court” includes a relevant service court.

(2) Those provisions are paragraphs 1(1) and (5), 2(1), 3(1), 4(1), 6, 9 (except 9(b)) and 10(c) and (d).

(3) In its application to a service community order under this Act, that Schedule has effect as if—

(a) the reference in paragraph 9(c) to the powers of the court making or amending the order were to the powers of the Crown Court;

(b) the reference in paragraph 11 to a community order made in England and Wales included a service community order made (anywhere) under this Act;

(c) the reference in paragraph 11 to the court which made the order or the court which last amended the order in England and Wales were to the Crown Court; and

(d) the reference in paragraph 15 to the court which made the order were to the Crown Court.

(4) In this section “relevant service court” has the meaning given by section 178(6).