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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-appeal-amendment-rules-1997/note",
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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",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Rules amend the Courts-Martial Appeal Rules 1968. They change the time limit for presentation of a petition before the exercise of a right of appeal to 28 days in all cases, consequent on the abolition of the requirement for findings of army and air force courts-martial to be confirmed by the appropriate officer. They also make provision for applications under section 32(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (evidence through television links where witness is outside the country where the court is sitting and such evidence by child witnesses) and section 32A of that Act (video recordings of testimony from child witnesses). Rights of audience in the Courts-Martial Appeal Court have been extended to include all those who have rights of audience in the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal. Some minor drafting changes have been made.\nThe Rules substitute Forms 1 and 2. The new forms reflect the fact that an appeal can now be made by servicemen against sentence as well as conviction and have been generally updated.\nThe new provisions relating to time limits for presenting a petition and the new Form 1 shall not apply to appeals where the conviction has taken place or sentence passed before 1st April 1997.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/580/note",
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  "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."
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