# The Armed Forces (Summary Hearing and Activation of Suspended Sentences of Service Detention) Rules 2009, Paragraph 6: Preliminary steps taken before commencement

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Where—
(a) an act was done before commencement, and
(b) had the new provisions been in force when the act was done, the act would have been done in accordance with any provision of rules 5, 6, 8, 9, 10(1) to (5), 31, 32 and 33(1) to (5),
the act is to be regarded for the purposes of these Rules as having been done in accordance with that provision, at the time when it was in fact done.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1216/schedule/2/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-summary-hearing-and-activation-of-suspended-sentences-of-service-detention-rules-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-6
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