{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Sections 55 to 60: exceptions and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) References in sections 55 to 60 and this section to charging (except the second such reference in section 59(2)) are to charging under any of sections 120 to 122.\n(2) Where any of sections 55 to 58 prohibits the charging of a person with an offence, the person may be charged with the offence if the Attorney General consents.\n(3) Each of sections 55 to 60 is without prejudice to the rest of those sections.\n(4) Nothing in those sections applies in relation to a Reserve Forces Act offence (as defined by section 62).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(1) substituted (15.2.2022) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), ss. 22(2), 24(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 61 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. 61 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/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:24.063324+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."
  }
}