43Attempting criminal conduct
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(1)Subsection (2) applies for the purpose of determining whether an attempt is an offence under section 42.
(2)For that purpose section 1(4) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 (c. 47) (offences that it is an offence to attempt) has effect as if for the words from “offence which” to “other than” there were substituted “offence under section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 consisting of an act punishable by the law of England and Wales as an indictable offence or an act that, if done in England or Wales, would be so punishable by that law; but “indictable offence” here does not include”.
(3)Section 42(6) applies for the purposes of section 1(4) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 as modified by this section.