Amendment of rule 32 (persons ineligible for membership in particular circumstances)

11.  In rule 32 (persons ineligible for membership in particular circumstances)—

(a) after paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A) A person is ineligible for membership of the court for any review of sentence proceedings if, at any time since the date of the commission of any offence for which the sentence that falls to be reviewed was imposed, that person and the offender were serving in the same unit.”;

(b) after paragraph (8), insert—

“(8A) A person is not ineligible for membership of the court for review of sentence proceedings by virtue of having been a member of the court for—

(a) any trial or appellate proceedings in which the offender was convicted of any offence for which the sentence that falls to be reviewed was imposed;

(b) any proceedings in which the sentence that falls to be reviewed was imposed or varied.”.