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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/schedule-16/paragraph-53",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/53",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 18 of that Act (general interpretation etc)—\n(a) in subsection (2), in the definition of “court” for “court-martial” substitute “ service court ”;\n(b) after that subsection insert—\n“(2A) In subsection (2) “service court” means the Court Martial, the Summary Appeal Court, the Service Civilian Court, the Court Martial Appeal Court or the Supreme Court on an appeal brought from the Court Martial Appeal Court.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 53 in force at 28.3.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 53 in force at 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/25",
      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
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  },
  "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."
}