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Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968

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54Saving for prerogative

(1)Nothing in this Act is to be taken as affecting any right of Her Majesty, by virtue of Her Royal prerogative or otherwise, to quash a conviction by court-martial, so far as regards the exercise thereof at a time before whichever of the following two events first occurs—

(a)the receipt by the registrar of an application for leave to appeal under Part II of this Act against the conviction ; or

(b)the receipt by him of particulars of such an application furnished in pursuance of section 9 of this Act.

(2)Nothing in this Act is to be taken as affecting Her Majesty's Royal prerogative of mercy.

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