{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of the Court Martial",
  "text": "(1) The Court Martial has jurisdiction to try any service offence.\n(2) In this Act “service offence” means—\n(a) any offence under Part 1;\n(aa) an offence under section 93A, 93E or 93G (testing for alcohol or drugs on suspicion);\n(b) an offence under section 107 (breach of requirement imposed on release from custody);\n(c) an offence under section 229 (breach of service restraining order);\n(d) an offence under section 266 (failure to comply with financial statement order);\n(e) an offence under section 305 (random drug testing);\n(f) any offence under regulations under section 328 (false answer during enlistment in a regular force) or section 343 (service inquiries) that the regulations provide is a service offence;\n(fa) an offence under paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 2A (offences committed by a lay member of the Court Martial);\n(fb) an offence under paragraph 5 of that Schedule (disclosing information about members' deliberations etc) committed by a person described in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph;\n(g) an offence under section 18 or 20 of the Armed Forces Act 1991 (c. 62) (orders for the protection of children);\n(h) an offence under any of sections 95 to 97 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c. 14) (reserve forces offences); or\n(i) an offence under paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to that Act (false answer during enlistment in a reserve force) committed by a person within paragraph 5(3) of that Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50(2)(aa) inserted (1.11.2013) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 4 para. 3(2); S.I. 2013/2501, art. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 50(2)(e) substituted (1.11.2013) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 4 para. 3(4); S.I. 2013/2501, art. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 50(2)(fa)(fb) inserted (13.4.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 14 para. 5; S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 80"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 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. 50 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/50",
    "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."
  }
}