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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-royal-navy-rules-1997/article-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-royal-navy-rules-1997/article-70.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts-Martial (Royal Navy) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-royal-navy-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/70",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Deliberation on sentence",
  "text": "(1) While the court sits in closed court to deliberate on sentence the clerk of the court and any officer under instruction are permitted to be present.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (6) below, the court shall award one sentence in respect of all the offences of which the accused has been found guilty and all the offences taken into consideration in accordance with rule 69 above.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, the vote of each member of the court as to the sentence shall be given orally in reverse order of seniority.\n(4) The president shall vote last and the judge advocate shall vote immediately before him.\n(5) In the case of an equality of votes on sentence, the president shall have the casting vote.\n(6) The sentence may include a direction that such deductions shall be made from the pay of the accused as may have been made if the accused had been found guilty by the court of the offence taken into consideration as well as of the offence or offences of which he has been found guilty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1535",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts-Martial (Amendment) Rules 2005"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/170/article/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:05.922918+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."
}