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Part IIU.K. Trial and punishment of offences

[F1 The summary appeal court]U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1S. 52FF and crossheading inserted (2.10.2000) by 2000 c. 4, s. 14(2); S.I. 2000/2366, art. 2 (with Sch. para. 15)

[F252FH Officers qualified for membership of summary appeal court.F3U.K.

(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, an officer is qualified under this section for membership of the summary appeal court if he is a naval officer of or above the rank of lieutenant who has held a commission in any of Her Majesty’s naval, military, or air forces for a period of not less than three years or periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than three years.

(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, rules under section 52FP of this Act may specify circumstances in which any other naval officer or a military or air-force officer is qualified under this section for membership of the court.

(3)The following are not qualified under this section for membership of the court—

(a)the court administration officer,

(b)an officer under the command of the court administration officer,

(c)the prosecuting authority,

(d)any person who has a general qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990,

(e)an advocate in Scotland or a solicitor who has a right of audience in the Court of Session or the High Court of Justiciary,

(f)a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland,

(g)a person who has in any Commonwealth country rights and duties similar to those of a barrister or solicitor in England and Wales, and is subject to punishment or disability for breach of professional rules, or

(h)any person who is, or has at any time during the preceding five years been, a member of the Royal Navy Regulating Branch.

(4)In this section—

Textual Amendments

F2S. 52FH inserted (2.10.2000) by 2000 c. 4, s. 16(3); S.I. 2000/2366, art. 2 (with Sch. para. 15)

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F3Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions