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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-court-martial-rules-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-170",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111479216",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Court Martial) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-court-martial-rules-2009",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/170",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "170",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“AA 1955” means the Army Act 1955;\n“AFA 1955” means the Air Force Act 1955;\n“the Army Rules” means the Courts-Martial (Army) Rules 2007;\n“commencement” means the time at which these Rules come into force;\n“court-martial rules” means the RN Rules, the Army Rules and the RAF Rules (or any of them);\n“NDA 1957” means the Naval Discipline Act 1957;\n“preliminary hearing” means a preliminary hearing held under court-martial rules;\n“the RAF Rules” means the Courts-Martial (Royal Air Force) Rules 2007;\n“the RN Rules” means the Courts-Martial (Royal Navy) Rules 2007;\n“the SDAs” means AA 1955, AFA 1955 and NDA 1957;\n“SDA compensation order” means a compensation order under paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 5A to AA 1955 or AFA 1955 or of Schedule 4A to NDA 1957;\n“SDA offence” means any of the following—\n(a) any offence under Part 2 of AA 1955 or AFA 1955;\n(b) any offence under Part 1 of NDA 1957;\n(c) an offence under section 47K of that Act;\n(d) an offence under section 18 or 20 of the Armed Forces Act 1991 committed before commencement;\n(e) an offence under any of sections 95 to 97 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 committed before commencement;\n(f) an offence under paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to that Act committed before commencement by a person within sub-paragraph (2) below;\n“stoppages” has the same meaning as in AA 1955, AFA 1955 or NDA 1957 (as the case may be).\n(2) A person is within this sub-paragraph if—\n(a) after committing the offence and before commencement, he became a member of a reserve force and—\n(i) he remained such a member until commencement; or\n(ii) immediately before commencement, he was subject to military law, air-force law or NDA 1957; or\n(b) after commencement, he becomes a member of the reserve forces.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1955 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1955 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/3442."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/3444."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/3443."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1991 c. 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1996 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479216/schedule/2/paragraph/170",
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  },
  "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."
}