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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-appeal-amendment-rules-1997/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/580",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts-Martial Appeal (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-appeal-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/6",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For rule 6(1) substitute—\n“(1) The period within which a person convicted by a court-martial, other than a person sentenced to death, must, as a condition precedent to the exercise of his right of appeal, present a petition to the Defence Council under section 8(2)(a) shall be:—\n(a) in the case of a conviction of a prisoner of war, who has a protecting power, by a prisoner of war court martial, 28 days following the day on which he received notice that the protecting power had been notified that sentence was passed by the court-martial; and\n(b) in all other cases, 28 days following the day on which sentence was passed.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/580/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:23:28.023349+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."
}