{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/35",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2021",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "The Summary Appeal Court: power to rectify mistakes",
  "text": "(1) Section 151 of AFA 2006 (SAC rules) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3), after paragraph (g) insert—\n(ga) in relation to cases where the court has awarded or confirmed a punishment at a rehearing and it appears to the court that it had no power to do so, enabling the court to substitute for the (purported) award or confirmation of the punishment a decision that the court would have had power to make at the rehearing;\n.\n(3) After subsection (5) insert—\n(5A) Rules made by virtue of subsection (3)(ga) may make provision about the commencement of punishments varied by the court.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 24(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 1.5.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 13.11.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2023/1102, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/35/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:58:50.996837+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."
  }
}