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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006-transitional-provisions-etc-order-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006-transitional-provisions-etc-order-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1059",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions etc) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006-transitional-provisions-etc-order-2009",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Custody for life where custodial sentence would have been required by SDAs",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies until the coming into force of section 61 of CJCSA 2000, where—\n(a) article 89 (sentences required by SDAs) applies; and\n(b) the offender is aged under 21 on conviction.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, the references in article 89(2) and (4) to a sentence of life imprisonment are to be read as to a sentence of custody for life under section 272(2)(a) of the Sentencing Code, as applied by section 210A of AFA 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(2) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 371 (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1059/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:50.439651+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."
}