{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1981/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1981/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/55",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The following entries shall be made in Table B in section 5(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (rehabilitation period for particular sentences)—\n(a) after the first entry relating to a custodial order under Schedule 5A to the 1955 Acts, or under Schedule 4A to the 1957 Act—\n“\nA custodial order under section 71AA of the Army Act 1955 or the Air Force Act 1955, or under section 43AA of the Naval Discipline Act 1957, where the maximum period of detention specified in the order is more than six months.\nSeven years.\n”\n(b) after the second entry relating to such a custodial order—\n“\nA custodial order under section 71AA of the said Acts of 1955, or section 43AA of the said Act of 1957, where the maximum period of detention specified in the order is six months or less.\nThree years.\n”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2(1) repealed (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 46, s. 35(2), Sch. 7 Pt. III; S.I. 1996/2474, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2(2) repealed (E.W.) (10.3.2014) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 25 Pt. 2 (with s. 141(1)-(6)); S.I. 2014/423, art. 2(c) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 53."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/55/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:47.316107+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}