Version Superseded: 01/12/2020
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Armed Forces Act 2006, Section 269B is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 01 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)This section applies where—
(a)the Court Martial makes a service compensation order and the person by whom the compensation is payable is aged 18 or over; and
(b)the court thinks that the usual default term is insufficient.
(2)In subsection (1) “the usual default term” means the period for which the person would be liable to be committed to prison for default if—
(a)an enforcement order were made; and
(b)by virtue of that order, the amount payable under the service compensation order were treated as if it had been a fine imposed on a conviction by a magistrates' court in England and Wales.
(3)Where this section applies, the court may specify a longer period as the maximum term to which the person is liable to be committed to prison for default if an enforcement order is made.
(4)The Table in section 139(4) of the Sentencing Act (maximum periods of imprisonment for default), as for the time being in force, applies for the purpose of determining the maximum periods of imprisonment that may be specified under this section for service compensation orders of the amounts set out in that Table.
(5)In this section “enforcement order” has the same meaning as in section 269A.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 269A-269C inserted (1.11.2013) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), ss. 16(1), 32(3); S.I. 2013/2501, art. 3(c)
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