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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-army-rules-1997/article-71",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/169",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts-Martial (Army) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-army-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/71",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Special finding",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Rules a special finding is, where the particulars proved or admitted at the trial differ from those alleged in the charge but are sufficient to support a finding of guilty of the like offence as that charged, a finding of guilty subject to exceptions or variations specified in the finding.\n(2) The court may not reach a special finding unless it appears that the difference is not so material as to have prejudiced the accused in his defence.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/169/article/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:06.653031+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."
}