Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16 Minor and consequential amendments

Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)

234 (1) Schedule 6 to that Act (modifications for armed forces of provisions about evidence of bad character) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 3—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1) for “courts-martial” substitute “the Court Martial”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (2)—

(i) in paragraph (a) for “judge and jury” substitute “a judge and jury”;

(ii) also in paragraph (a) for “court-martial” substitute “the Court Martial”;

(iii) in paragraph (c) for “dissolve” substitute “discharge”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (4)—

(i) in the paragraph substituted by paragraph (a), for the words from “section 115B(2) of the Army” to “1957” substitute “section 167 of the Armed Forces Act 2006”;

(ii) in paragraph (c) for “dissolve” substitute “discharge”;

(d) in the subsection substituted by sub-paragraph (5), for “dissolve” substitute “discharge”.

(3) In the subsection substituted by paragraph 4 of that Schedule—

(a) in paragraph (a) for “a court-martial” substitute “the Court Martial”;

(b) in paragraph (b) for “a Standing Civilian Court” substitute “the Summary Appeal Court or the Service Civilian Court”.

(4) For paragraph 6 substitute—

“6 In this Schedule “service court” means—

(a) the Court Martial;

(b) the Summary Appeal Court;

(c) the Service Civilian Court; or

(d) the Court Martial Appeal Court.”