C2Part II Discipline and Trial and Punishment of Air-Force Offences
Courts-martial: provisions relating to trial
99AF2 Proof at courts-martial by written statement.
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F3Without prejudice to section 99 above, section 9 of the M1Criminal Justice Act 1967 (proof by written statement) shall apply subject to subsection (2) below and to service modifications, for the purposes of proceedings before courts-martial (whether held in the United Kingdom or not) as it applies to proceedings on indictment.
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The statements rendered admissible by this section are statements made—
a
in the United Kingdom by any person, and
b
outside the United Kingdom by any person who at the time of making the statement was—
i
a person subject to service law, or
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In subsection (1) above “service modifications” means—
a
modifications made by any regulations under section 12 of the M6Criminal Justice Act 1967 in force on the coming into force of this section, and
b
such modifications in the said section 9, as applied by subsection (1) above, as the Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument prescribe thereafter, being modifications which appear to him to be necessary or proper for the purpose of the operation of that section in relation to proceedings before a court-martial.
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Regulations under subsection (3)(b) above shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
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Section 89 of the said Act of 1967 (punishment of making false statements tendered under section 9) shall apply to any statement rendered admissible by this section.
Pt. II (ss. 24-143) applied (1.6.1996) by Armed Force Act 1991 (c. 62, SIF 7:1), ss. 18(9)(b), 20(10)(b); S.I. 1996/1173, art. 2