Armed Forces Act 1996

1. Introductory Text

2. Continuance of Services Acts

   1. 1. Continuance of Services Acts.

3. Terms and conditions of service

   1. 2. Enlistment or entry for local service.

   2. 3. Discharge certificates.

   3. 4. Mode of making regulations relating to enlistment etc.

4. Trial and punishment of offences under Services Acts

   1. 5. Procedure for dealing with offences under Services Acts.

   2. 6. Abrogation of common law corroboration rules.

   3. 7. Evidence from children.

   4. 8. Findings of unfitness to stand trial and insanity.

   5. 9. Postponement of sentences of courts-martial.

   6. 10. Community supervision orders.

5. Fingerprints and samples

   1. 11. Fingerprinting of certain offenders.

   2. 12. Taking of samples from certain offenders.

6. Rehabilitation of service offenders

   1. 13. Application of Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

   2. 14. Application of Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.

7. Review and appeal

   1. 15. Abolition of confirmation.

   2. 16. Review of findings and sentences.

   3. 17. Appeals against sentence.

   4. 18. Powers exercisable by registrar.

   5. 19. Appeals on behalf of deceased persons.

8. Redress of complaints

   1. 20. Services redress of complaints procedures.

9. Complaints to industrial tribunals

   1. 21. Sex discrimination: Great Britain.

   2. 22. Sex discrimination: Northern Ireland.

   3. 23. Racial discrimination.

   4. 24. Equal treatment: Great Britain.

   5. 25. Equal treatment: Northern Ireland.

   6. 26. Other complaints: Great Britain.

   7. 27. Other complaints: Northern Ireland.

10. Miscellaneous

    1. 28. Exemptions from Firearms Act 1968.

    2. 29. Exemptions from Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

    3. 30. Greenwich Hospital.

    4. 31. Grants for preservation of Royal Naval College site.

    5. 32. Offences connected with services drug testing programmes.

    6. 33. Application of Visiting Forces Act 1952.

11. Supplemental

    1. 34. The 1955 Acts and the 1957 Act.

    2. 35. Minor and consequential amendments and repeals.

    3. 36. Short title, commencement and application to Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

12. Schedules:

    1. Schedule 1

       Procedure for dealing with offences under Services Acts.

       1. Part I Summary disposal of offences.

       2. Part II The prosecuting authority.

       3. Part III Trial of offences by court-martial.

       4. Part IV Minor and consequential amendments.

    2. Schedule 2

       Findings of unfitness to stand trial and insanity.

    3. Schedule 3

       Community supervision orders.

    4. Schedule 4

       Schedule to be inserted in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

    5. Schedule 5

       Review of findings and sentence.

    6. Schedule 6

       Minor and consequential amendments.

    7. Schedule 7

       Repeals.

       1. Part I Repeals relating to changes to procedure for dealing with offences under Services Acts.

       2. Part II Repeals relating to abolition of confirmation.

       3. Part III Other repeals.