{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/67",
  "legislation_title": "Visiting Forces Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "United Kingdom courts not to try offenders tried by service courts of visiting forces.",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the last foregoing section, where a person has been tried by a service court of a country to which this section applies in the exercise of the powers referred to in subsection (1) of section two of this Act, he shall not be tried for the same crime by a United Kingdom court.\n(2) Where a person who has been convicted by a service court of such a country in the exercise of the said powers is convicted by a United Kingdom court for a different crime, but it appears to that court that the conviction by the service court was wholly or partly in respect of acts or omissions in respect of which he is convicted by the United Kingdom court, that court shall have regard to the sentence of the service court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/67/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:10.434610+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}