{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1996/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1996/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/46",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1996",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Abrogation of common law corroboration rules.",
  "text": "(1) For the avoidance of doubt section 32 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (abolition of corroboration rules) and section 34(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (abrogation of requirements for corroboration warning) apply to any service disciplinary proceedings in which the rules abrogated by those sections would have been applied.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this section “service disciplinary proceedings” means proceedings before—\n(a) the Court Martial;\n(b) the Summary Appeal Court;\n(c) the Service Civilian Court;\n(d) the Court Martial Appeal Court; or\n(e) the Supreme Court on an appeal brought from the Court Martial Appeal Court.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(2) repealed (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 138; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1988 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "For the application of this section to Channel Islands and Isle of Man, see s. 36(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/46/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:51.530501+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}