# Armed Forces Act 2021, Paragraph 4: Findings and sentence

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Section 160 of AFA 2006 (decisions of Court Martial: finding and sentence) is amended as follows.
(2) Before subsection (1) insert—
“(A1) The finding of the Court Martial on a charge must be determined by votes of the members of the Court Martial other than the judge advocate (the “lay members”) and—
(a) where there are three lay members, must be a finding with which no fewer than two of them agree;
(b) where there are four lay members, must be a finding with which no fewer than three of them agree;
(c) where there are five lay members, must be a finding with which no fewer than four of them agree;
(d) where there are six lay members, must be a finding with which no fewer than five of them agree.”
(3) In subsection (1), for the words from “the following” to “passed by it,” substitute “subsection (4), any sentence passed by the Court Martial”.
(4) Omit subsections (2) and (3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/35/schedule/1/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-4
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