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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-application-to-service-courts-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2083",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-application-to-service-courts-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“Court Martial Rules” means rules made under section 163 of the 2006 Act;\n“CMAC Rules” means rules made under section 49 of the Court Martial Appeals Act 1968;\n“SAC Rules” means rules made under section 151 of the 2006 Act;\n“SCC Rules” means rules made under section 288 of the 2006 Act;\n“the competence of witnesses and capacity to be sworn provisions” has the meaning given by article 9(4);\n“the general and final provisions” has the meaning given by article 11(2);\n“judge advocate” has the same meaning as in section 362 of the 2006 Act;\n“lay members” has the same meaning as in section 155(1) of the 2006 Act;\n“the protection of complainants in proceedings for sexual offences provisions” has the meaning given by article 7(2);\n“the protection of witnesses from cross-examination provisions” has the meaning given by article 5(3);\n“Rules of court” means rules of evidence and procedure for proceedings before—\n(a)the Court Martial;\n(b)the Service Civilian Court; ...\n(c)the Court Martial Appeal Court; and\n(d)the Summary Appeal Court;\n“the special measures provisions” has the meaning given by article 3(3).\n(2) Any reference in this Order to a special measures direction is to be read—\n(a) in relation to proceedings before the Court Martial, as a reference to a special measures direction within the meaning of Court Martial Rules;\n(b) in relation to proceedings before the Service Civilian Court, as a reference to a special measures direction within the meaning of SCC Rules;\n(c) in relation to proceedings before the Court Martial Appeal Court, as a reference to a direction under section 19 of the Act ;\n(d) in relation to proceedings before the Summary Appeal Court, as a reference to a special measures direction within the meaning of the SAC Rules.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) inserted (15.11.2015) by The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1805), arts. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 2(1) revoked (15.11.2015) by The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1805), arts. 1, 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) inserted (15.11.2015) by The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1805), arts. 1, 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 2(2)(c): semicolon substituted for full stop (15.11.2015) by The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1805), arts. 1, 3(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(2)(d) inserted (15.11.2015) by The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Application to Service Courts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1805), arts. 1, 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 31.10.2009, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2083/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:07:27.254092+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."
}