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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-review-of-court-martial-sentence-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1168",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Review of Court Martial Sentence) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-review-of-court-martial-sentence-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“the corresponding civil offence”, in relation to an offence under section 70 of the Army Act 1955, section 70 of the Air Force Act 1955 or section 42 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957, means—\n(a) the act or omission punishable by the law of England; or\n(b) where the act or omission is not punishable by the law of England, the equivalent act or omission which if committed in England would be punishable by that law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1955 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1955 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1168/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:24.620147+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."
}