# The Armed Forces (Custody Proceedings) Rules 2009, Article 23: Circumstances not provided for


Subject to any other enactment (including any other provision of these Rules), the judge advocate shall ensure that proceedings are conducted—
(a) in such a way as appears to him most closely to resemble the way in which comparable proceedings of a magistrates’ court in England and Wales would be conducted in comparable circumstances; and
(b) if he is unable to determine how comparable proceedings of a magistrates’ court in England and Wales would be conducted in comparable circumstances, in such a way as appears to him to be in the interests of justice.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1098/article/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-custody-proceedings-rules-2009/article-23
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