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48 Jurisdiction of courts-martial.U.K.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any offence under Part I of this Act may be tried and punished by court-martial; and a court-martial shall have jurisdiction to try any such offence whether committed within the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
(2)A person shall not be tried by court-martial by virtue of section forty-two of this Act for a civil offence of treason, murder, manslaughter, treason-felony or rape [or an offence under section 1 of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957]. . . [or an offence under section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974][or an offence under section 2 or 11 of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996][or an offence under section 51 or 52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001] committed on shore within the United Kingdom; and for the purposes of this subsection an offence of murder or manslaughter [, or an offence under section 1 of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 or section 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 consisting of the killing of a person,]. . .shall be deemed to have been committed at the place of the commission of the act or the occurrence of the neglect which caused the death, irrespective of the place of the death. [In this subsection the references to murder shall apply also to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide].
(3)Except as provided by subsection (3) of section thirty-eight of this Act, a person who commits an offence under that section in relation to a court-martial shall not be dealt with by that court for that offence.
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