Army Act 1955 (repealed)

126 Special provisions as to carrying out or serving of sentences outside the United Kingdom otherwise thanin military establishments.F1U.K.

(1)A Secretary of State may from time to time make arrangements with the authorities of any country orterritory outside the United Kingdom whereby sentences of death passed by courts-martial may in accordancewith regulations under section one hundred and twenty-one of this Act be carried out in establishments underthe control of those authorities and military sentences of imprisonment or detention may in accordance withImprisonment and Detention Rules be served wholly or partly in such establishments.

(2)The powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections one hundred and twenty-one and one hundredand twenty-two of this Act shall extend to the making of such provision as appears to the Secretary of Statenecessary or expedient for giving effect to any arrangements made under the last foregoing subsection.

(3)The said powers shall be so exercised as to secure that no sentence of death passed by a court-martialshall be executed, and no military sentence of imprisonment or detention shall be served, in anestablishment in any country or territory outside the United Kingdom not being a military establishment,except in accordance with arrangements made as respects that country or territory.

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F1Act: the provisions of the 1955 Acts providing for findings of courts-martial to be subject to confirmation and to revision at the direction of the confirming officer cease to have effect (1.4.1997 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of 1996 c. 46, s. 15; S.I. 1997/304, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 2