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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-courts-martial-general-orders-royal-navy-1991/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2737",
  "legislation_title": "The Naval Courts-Martial General Orders (Royal Navy) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-courts-martial-general-orders-royal-navy-1991",
  "path": "article/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Charge sheet–joint trials",
  "text": "–\n(1) Any number of accused may be charged in the same charge sheet with offences alleged to have been committed by them separately if the acts or omissions on which the charges are founded are so connected that it is in the interests of justice that the accused be tried together.\n(2) Any number of accused may be charged jointly in one charge for an offence alleged to have been committed by them jointly. Where so charged any one or more of such accused may at the time be charged in the same charge sheet with any other offence alleged to have been committed by him or them individually or jointly, provided such charges could, if the accused to whom they relate had been tried separately, have been included in the same charge sheet because they are founded on the same facts or form part of a series of offences of the same or similar character.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2737/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:13.386859+00:00"
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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."
}