Version Superseded: 01/11/2013
Point in time view as at 08/03/2012. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Armed Forces Act 2006, Section 50 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 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)The Court Martial has jurisdiction to try any service offence.
(2)In this Act “service offence” means—
(a)any offence under Part 1;
(b)an offence under section 107 (breach of requirement imposed on release from custody);
(c)an offence under section 229 (breach of service restraining order);
(d)an offence under section 266 (failure to comply with financial statement order);
(e)any offence under Chapter 1 of Part 13 (testing for alcohol and drugs);
(f)any offence under regulations under section 328 (false answer during enlistment in a regular force) or section 343 (service inquiries) that the regulations provide is a service offence;
(g)an offence under section 18 or 20 of the Armed Forces Act 1991 (c. 62) (orders for the protection of children);
(h)an offence under any of sections 95 to 97 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c. 14) (reserve forces offences); or
(i)an offence under paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to that Act (false answer during enlistment in a reserve force) committed by a person within paragraph 5(3) of that Schedule.
Commencement Information
I1S. 50 in force at 28.3.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)
I2S. 50 in force at 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4
The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You may also experience some issues with your browser, such as an alert box that a script is taking a long time to run.
Would you like to continue?
The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download.
Would you like to continue?
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.
