{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997/schedule-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "APPLICATION AND MODIFICATION OF ENACTMENTS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nProvision applied\nModifications\nIn the 1955 Act—\n(functions of the prosecuting authority)\nsection 83B(8) to (14)\nfor the words “rules under section 103 of this Act” wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “any order made under paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Armed Forces Act 1976”\nfor the words “commencement of trial” wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “opening of proceedings”\n(prosecuting officers)\nsection 83C\n(witnesses to be examined on oath)\nsection 93(1B)\n(power to convict of offence other than that charged)\nsection 98\n(proof by written statement)\nsection 99A\n(affirmations)\nsection 102\nfor the words “this Act” there shall be substituted the words “the Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997”\nfor the words “prescribed form” there shall be substituted the words “form specified in any order under paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Armed Forces Act 1976”\n(trial and punishment of offences under service law notwithstanding offender ceasing to be subject to it)\nsection 131(1)\nas applied by section 209(3)(g)\nsection 132(3)\n(custody of proceedings)\nsection 141\nfor the words “prescribed period” there shall be substituted the words “period specified in an order under paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Armed Forces Act 1976”\nafter subsection (5), the insertion of the following subsection—\n“(5A) In this section, the expression “a person tried by court-martial” shall include, where the person tried was under 17 years of age, any parent or guardian of his.”\n(interpretation)\nsection 143\n(arrest of persons unlawfully at large)\nsection 190B\nafter the word “detention” there shall be inserted the words “or having been sentenced by a Standing Civilian Court to imprisonment, to a custodial order under Schedule 5A to this Act or to be detained under section 71A(4) of this Act”\n(general provisions as to evidence)\nsection 198\n(proof of outcome of civil trial)\nsection 199\n(as applied by section 209(4B))\n(evidence of proceedings)\nsection 200\nfor the words “president of the court” there shall be substituted the word “magistrate”\n(exclusion of enactments requiring the fiat of the Attorney-General)\nsection 204A\nIn the Criminal Justice Act 1967—\nsections 9 and 10\n(as applied and modified by the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (Application to Courts-Martial) (Evidence) Regulations 1997)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/173."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/172/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:04.339831+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."
}