{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-appeals-act-1968/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-appeals-act-1968/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/20",
  "legislation_title": "Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-appeals-act-1968",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Court Martial Appeals Act 1968.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on the day appointed under section 106(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 for the coming into force of section 98 of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(1) substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 8 para. 53; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Section 98 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 came into force 1.9.1968 by S.I. 1968/325"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/20/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:30.184032+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."
}