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(1)[F1The Secretary of State] may make regulations with respect to the execution of sentences of death under this Act, whether passed in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection, regulations under this section may make provision with respect to all or any of the following matters, that is to say—
(a)the manner in which, the person by whom and the country or territory, place and kind of establishment (whether naval or not) where any such sentence is to be executed; and
(b)the custody and treatment of the person under sentence and his removal from one place or establishment to another between the passing and execution of the sentence,
or may authorise such person as may be specified in or determined by or under the regulations to give directions with respect to all or any of those matters.
(3)Regulations made under this section may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to [F1the Secretary of State] to be necessary for the purposes of the regulations.
(4)Such provost marshal or other provost officer not below the rank of lieutenant-commander as may be specified in or determined under regulations under this section shall be responsible for the due execution of any sentence of death passed under this Act.
(5)The power of [F1the Secretary of State] to make regulations under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument; and any statutory instrument containing such regulations shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
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F1Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. I
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C1S. 79 amended by Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968 (c. 20), s. 52
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F2Act repealed (prosp.)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
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