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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-civilian-court-rules-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“AA 1955” means the Army Act 1955 ;\n“AFA 1955” means the Air Force Act 1955 ;\n“AFA 1976” means the Armed Forces Act 1976\n“commencement” means the date on which these Rules come into force;\n“NDA 1957” means the Naval Discipline Act 1957 ;\n“SCCO 1997” means the Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997 ;\n“the SDAs” means AA 1955, AFA 1955 and NDA 1957;\n“SDA compensation order” means a compensation order under paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 5A to AA 1955 or AFA 1955 or of Schedule 4A to NDA 1957;\n“SDA offence” any offence under Parts 2 of AA 1955 or AFA 1955, as those Parts are as applied by section 209 of those Acts to those persons described in sub-sections (1) or (2) of those sections; and\n“a Standing Civilian Court” means a Standing Civilian Court established under section 6 of AFA 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1955 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1955 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1976 c. 52"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/172"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}