{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-appeal-court-rules-2009/article-74D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-appeal-court-rules-2009/article-74D.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/74D",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "74D",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter 7",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“the 1999 Act” means the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999;\n“eligible witness” means a witness eligible for assistance by virtue of rule 74E or 74F;\n“intermediary” has the same meaning as in section 29 of the 1999 Act;\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 74G.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 11 Ch. 7 inserted (16.11.2015) by The Armed Forces (Service Courts Rules) (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1812), rules 1, 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1211/article/74D",
    "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."
}