{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-court-martial-rules-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-202",
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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/202",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "202",
  "heading": "Activation of suspended SDA sentence of detention",
  "text": "(1) The court may not, by virtue of having convicted a person of an SDA election offence, make an order under section 191(3) in respect of a sentence passed under AA 1955 or AFA 1955.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (3) applies where, by virtue of having convicted a person of an SDA election offence, the court makes an order under section 191(3) in respect of a sentence of detention passed under NDA 1957 for a term of more than 90 days.\n(3) The order must provide—\n(a) that the suspended sentence shall take effect with the substitution of a term of 90 days or less for the original term; or\n(b) that the suspended sentence—\n(i) shall take effect for 90 days; and\n(ii) shall then have effect as if it were a suspended sentence of service detention for a term of not more than that part of the original term which exceeds 90 days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479216/schedule/2/paragraph/202",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:31.031139+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."
}