{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-362",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-362.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/362",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "362",
  "heading": "Judge advocates",
  "text": "In this Act “judge advocate” means—\n(a) the Judge Advocate General;\n(b) a person appointed under section 30(1)(a) or (b) or (2) of the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1951 (c. 46) (assistants to the Judge Advocate General); or\n(c) a puisne judge of the High Court in England and Wales , or a Circuit judge, who (following a request by the Judge Advocate General) is nominated by or on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to sit as a judge advocate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 362(c) inserted (1.5.2022) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), ss. 3, 24(1); S.I. 2022/471, reg. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 362 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": "S. 362 in force at 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/section/362",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:06:14.237699+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."
  }
}