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(1)The Court Martial may make an order under subsection (3) where it convicts a person of an offence committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence of service detention passed on him.
(2)The Court Martial may also make an order under subsection (3) if—
(a)the Court Martial has passed a suspended sentence of service detention on a person;
(b)the person has been convicted of another service offence, or an offence in the British Islands, committed during the operational period of the suspended sentence; and
(c)the person appears or is brought before the Court Martial following the issue of a summons or warrant under subsection (6).
(3)An order under this subsection is an order—
(a)that the suspended sentence shall take effect with the original term unaltered; or
(b)that the suspended sentence shall take effect with the substitution of a lesser term for the original term.
(4)An order under subsection (3) may provide either—
(a)that the suspended sentence shall take effect immediately; or
(b)that the suspended sentence shall take effect from the end of another sentence of service detention which has been passed on the person on a previous occasion or which the court passes on the person on the same occasion as it makes the order.
(5)Where—
(a)by virtue of subsection (2) the Court Martial orders that a suspended sentence shall take effect, and
(b)the conviction mentioned in subsection (2)(b) is a conviction by an officer or the Summary Appeal Court,
any unserved part of any service supervision and punishment order or minor punishment awarded by the officer or the Summary Appeal Court is remitted by the making of the order.
(6)If it appears to the Court Martial—
(a)that subsection (2)(a) and (b) apply, and
(b)that the offender has not been dealt with in respect of the suspended sentence,
the court may issue a summons requiring him to appear at the time and place specified in it, or a warrant for his arrest.
(7)In subsection (2)(a) the reference to the Court Martial includes—
(a)the Court Martial Appeal Court; and
(b)the Supreme Court on an appeal brought from the Court Martial Appeal Court.
(8)This section is subject to section 244 (limit on combined term of sentences of service detention).
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