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[F112(1)This paragraph applies where—
(a)the Court Martial, on convicting a person (“the offender”) of a relevant offence, makes an order under section 191(3) in relation to a suspended sentence of service detention passed on the offender; and
(b)the suspended sentence was passed by an officer or the Summary Appeal Court.
(2)The term of the suspended sentence as it takes effect by virtue of the order must not exceed 28 days unless the offender’s commanding officer would have had extended powers for the purposes of section 194 if—
(a)where the offence is a case A offence or a case B offence, the offender had not elected Court Martial trial; or
(b)where the offence is a case C offence or a case D offence, the charge referred as mentioned in paragraph 4(c) had not been so referred.
(3)If—
(a)the Court Martial awards a term of service detention (“the new sentence”) in respect of the offence (or, where paragraph 9 applies, in respect of the offence and one or more other relevant offences), and
(b)the order under section 191(3) provides for the suspended sentence to take effect from the end of the new sentence,
the aggregate of the terms of the two sentences must not exceed 28 days or, where the extended powers condition is met, 90 days.
(4)The extended powers condition is—
(a)where the offence is a case A offence or a case B offence, that the offender’s commanding officer would have had extended powers for the purposes of section 194 if the offender had not elected Court Martial trial;
(b)where the offence is a case C offence or a case D offence, that the offender’s commanding officer would have had extended powers for the purposes of section 194 if the charge referred as mentioned in paragraph 4(c) had not been so referred.
(5)In determining for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) or (4) whether the offender’s commanding officer would have had extended powers for the purposes of section 194 if, as the case may be—
(a)the offender had not elected Court Martial trial, or
(b)the charge referred as mentioned in paragraph 4(c) had not been so referred,
no account is to be taken of any of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (6).
(6)Those matters are—
(a)any change in the commanding officer’s rank after the election or referral;
(b)in the case of sub-paragraph (2)(a) or (4)(a), any possibility that, if the offender had declined Court Martial trial, the commanding officer might subsequently have been granted extended powers for the purposes of section 194; and
(c)in the case of sub-paragraph (2)(b) or (4)(b), any possibility that, if the charge referred as mentioned in paragraph 4(c) had not been so referred, the commanding officer might have been granted extended powers for those purposes after the time when the charge was in fact referred.]
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F1Sch. 3A inserted (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), ss. 14(2), 32(3), Sch. 1; S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(b) (with arts. 6(3), 10-12)
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