Armed Forces Act 2006

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[F18U.K.Paragraph 15 (activation orders: further provision) has effect as if—

(a)in the heading, after “orders” there were inserted “ made by the Crown Court ”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (1), for “a court” there were substituted “ the Crown Court ”;

(c)for sub-paragraph (3) there were substituted—

“(3)For the purpose of any enactment conferring rights of appeal against sentence in criminal cases—

(a)the activation order is to be treated as a sentence passed on the offender by the Crown Court for the offence for which the suspended sentence was passed, and

(b)the offender is to be treated as if he or she had been convicted on indictment of that offence.”;

(d)in sub-paragraph (4) at the end there were inserted “and a custodial sentence within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (see section 374 of that Act)”.]

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