SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16Dealing non-custodially with offenders

Part 8Related amendments in Armed Forces Act 2006

Removal of limits on compensation orders made against adults

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1

Section 284 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (Service Civilian Court compensation orders etc: maximum amounts) is amended as follows.

2

After subsection (2) insert—

2A

The following subsections apply if (but only if) the Service Civilian Court has convicted a person aged under 18 (“the offender”) of an offence or offences.

3

In subsection (3) (compensation in respect of an offence not to exceed amount mentioned in section 131(1) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000) for “any offence of which the court has convicted the offender” substitute “ the offence, or any one of the offences, ”.

4

Nothing in this paragraph affects orders in respect of offences committed before the day on which this paragraph comes into force.