Armed Forces Act 2001

Sentence where penalty for civil offence fixed by law as life imprisonment

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33(1)Section 70(3) of each of the 1955 Acts (punishment of civil offences) is amended as follows.

(2)For paragraphs (aa) and (ab) there is substituted—

(aa)if the corresponding civil offence is one for which the sentence is fixed by law as life imprisonment, be sentenced to imprisonment for life;.