{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-hearing-and-activation-of-suspended-sentences-of-service-detention-rules-2009/rule-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-hearing-and-activation-of-suspended-sentences-of-service-detention-rules-2009/rule-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Summary Hearing and Activation of Suspended Sentences of Service Detention) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-hearing-and-activation-of-suspended-sentences-of-service-detention-rules-2009",
  "path": "rule/32",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Changing the time of a hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2)—\n(a) at any time before the hearing the commanding officer may fix a different time for the hearing;\n(b) if after fixing a time for the hearing the commanding officer makes an application under rule 30(1), he shall cancel the time fixed and fix a different time for the hearing;\n(c) if, 24 hours or less before the time fixed for the hearing, the offender requests the commanding officer’s assistance in finding a person to nominate under rule 33(1), the commanding officer shall cancel the time fixed and fix a different time for the hearing.\n(2) Where a different time is fixed for a hearing—\n(a) it shall be fixed in accordance with rule 31(2) to (4);\n(b) the commanding officer shall notify the offender of it in writing.\n(3) Where the commanding officer fixes a different time for the hearing by virtue of paragraph (1)(c), the time fixed shall be not less than 24 hours after he has complied with rule 33(5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 32 in force at 31.10.2009, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1216/rule/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:09.647380+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."
}