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Section 7 Offences under service law.

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Where—

(a)

a person has at any time been convicted of an offence under section 70 of the M1Army Act 1955 or the M2Air Force Act 1955 or section 42 of the M3Naval Discipline Act 1957; and

(b)

the corresponding civil offence (within the meaning of that Act) was a serious offence, a class A drug trafficking offence or a domestic burglary,

the relevant section shall have effect as if he had at that time been convicted in England and Wales of the corresponding civil offence.

(2)

Subsection (3) of section 6 above applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1955 c.18.

M2

1955 c.19.

M3

1957 c.53.

Notes on Part I

Textual amendments

F1

Pt. I (ss. 1-7) repealed (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165, 168(1), Sch. 12 Pt. I (with Sch. 11 paras. 1, 2)