{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-appeals-against-review-of-sentence-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-appeals-against-review-of-sentence-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Appeals Against Review of Sentence) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-appeals-against-review-of-sentence-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1968 Act” means the Court Martial Appeals Act 1968;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“advocacy services” means any services which it would be reasonable to expect a person who is exercising, or contemplating exercising, a right of audience in relation to any proceedings, or contemplated proceedings, to provide;\n“Appeal Court” means the Court Martial Appeal Court;\n“appellant” means the person who applies for leave to appeal, or who is granted leave to appeal under Parts 2 or 3 of these Regulations;\n“Director of Service Prosecutions” has the meaning given by section 374 of the 2006 Act;\n“expert witness costs” means amounts payable in respect of the services of an expert witness, including amounts payable in connection with attendance by the witness at court or elsewhere;\n“legal costs” means fees, charges, disbursements and other amounts payable in respect of advocacy services or litigation services including, in particular, expert witness costs;\n“litigation services” means any services which it would be reasonable to expect a person who is exercising, or contemplating exercising, a right to conduct litigation in relation to proceedings, or contemplated proceedings, to provide;\n“offender” means the person in respect of whom the referral under section 304D(4) or 304E(2) of the 2006 Act is made;\n“the registrar” means the registrar of the Appeal Court;\n“the Rules” means Rules of Court made under regulation 39;\n“sentence”, in relation to an offence, includes any order made by a court when dealing with an offender.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 comes into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 20, section 272 of, and paragraph 53 of Schedule 8 to, the 2006 Act amends section 61(1) of the 1968 Act to provide for that Act to be cited as the Court Martial Appeals Act 1968."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Court Martial Appeal Court is established by section 1 of the Court Martial Appeals Act 1968 (c. 20)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/619/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:29:45.954327+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."
}