{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-amendment-of-court-rules-rules-2023/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-amendment-of-court-rules-rules-2023/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1097",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Amendment of Court Rules) Rules 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-amendment-of-court-rules-rules-2023",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of rule 96 (information before sentencing)",
  "text": "In rule 96, for paragraph (2)(b) substitute—\n“(b) any previous convictions of the offender for—\n(i) offences under the law of any part of the British Islands, or\n(ii) relevant offences of which the offender has been convicted by a court outside the British Islands,\nand any sentence awarded in respect of any such offence, and whether any such conviction is spent for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 53; sections 2 and 6 were amended, and the Schedule was inserted, by the Armed Forces Act 1996 (c. 46), section 13 and Schedule 4. Sections 1, 2, and 5 were further amended by paragraphs 63 to 66 of Schedule 16 to the Armed Forces Act 2006. Section 5 was further amended by section 18 of the Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1097/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:39:46.902151+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}