{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-civilian-court-rules-2009/article-74",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1209",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Civilian Court) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-civilian-court-rules-2009",
  "path": "article/74",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter 6",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“eligible witness” means a witness eligible for assistance by virtue of rule 75 or 76;\n“intermediary” has the same meaning as in section 29 of the 1999 Act;\n“modern slavery offence” means an offence under section 42 as respects which the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales is—\n(a)an offence under section 1 (slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour) or 2 (human trafficking) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015;\n(b)an offence of attempting or conspiring to commit such an offence; or\n(c)an offence under Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (encouraging and assisting crime) where the offence (or one of the offences) which the offender intended or believed would be committed is a modern slavery offence;\n“sexual offence” means an offence under section 42 as respects which the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales is—\n(a) an offence which is—\n(i)an offence under Part 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, or\n(ii)a relevant superseded offence as defined by section 62(1A) of the 1999 Act (meaning of “sexual offence” and other references to offences);\n(b)an offence of attempting or conspiring to commit, or of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring or inciting the commission of, such an offence; or\n(c)an offence under Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (encouraging and assisting crime) committed in relation to such an offence;\n“special measures direction” means a direction providing for one or more of the special measures available in relation to a witness to apply to evidence given by the witness;\n“the special measures provisions” means the provisions of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the 1999 Act applied by an order under section 61(1) of that Act.\n(2) In this Chapter—\n(a) references to the quality of a witness's evidence are to its quality in terms of completeness, coherence and accuracy (and for this purpose “coherence” refers to a witness's ability in giving evidence to give answers which address the questions put to the witness and can be understood both individually and collectively); and\n(b) references to the special measures available in relation to a witness are to be construed in accordance with rule 77.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 74(1) inserted (31.7.2015) by The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1472), regs. 1, 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 74(1) substituted (4.7.2022) by The Armed Forces (Service Court Rules) (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/605), rules 1(2), 17(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2007 c. 27."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1209/article/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:14.934896+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."
}