{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-appeal-court-rules-2009/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-appeal-court-rules-2009/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1211",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Summary Appeal Court) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-appeal-court-rules-2009",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in these Rules to a numbered section is to that section of the Act unless otherwise stated.\n(2) In these Rules—\n“the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“the 1967 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 1967 ;\n“the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003;\n“the CPIA Order” means the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Application to the Armed Forces) Order 2009 ;\n“advance information” has the meaning given by rule 42(2);\n“bad character” has the meaning given by section 98 of the 2003 Act;\n“civilian police force” means a UK police force or a British overseas territory police force;\n“the complainant”, in relation to any offence (or alleged offence), means a person against or in relation to whom the offence was (or is alleged to have been) committed;\n“the court” means the Summary Appeal Court;\n“DX” means document exchange;\n“the judge advocate”, in relation to any proceedings, means the judge advocate specified for the proceedings under section 142(3);\n“lay members” means those persons who are members of the court by virtue of section 142(1)(b) or (c);\n“legal representative” means a person appointed under rule 41;\n“live link” has the meaning given by rule 25(3)(a);\n“pre-sentence report” has the meaning given by section 257; and\n“unit” means—\n(a)a naval ship or establishment;\n(b)any body of members of Her Majesty's forces formed under the command of a person appointed to be the commanding officer of the body; or\n(c)an air force station.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 3(2) inserted (16.11.2015) by The Armed Forces (Service Courts Rules) (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1812), rules 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/988."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1211/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:13.432090+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."
}