{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/43",
  "legislation_title": "Crime (Sentences) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offences under service law.",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person has at any time been convicted of an offence under section 70 of the Army Act 1955 or the Air Force Act 1955 or section 42 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957; and\n(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,\nthe relevant section shall have effect as if he had at that time been convicted in England and Wales of the corresponding civil offence.\n(2) Subsection (3) of section 6 above applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1955 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1955 c.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1957 c.53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/43/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:59.837778+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."
}