Schedules

Schedule 17Treatment of convictions in other member States etc

Restriction on imposing custodial sentence or service detention

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In section 263 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) (restriction on imposing custodial sentence or service detention on unrepresented offender)—

a

at the end of subsection (2)(b) insert “ , or sentenced to detention by a court in any other member State or for a member State service offence ”, and

b

at the end of subsection (6)(b) insert—

c

member State service offence” means an offence which—

i

was the subject of proceedings under the service law of a member State other than the United Kingdom, and

ii

at the time it was done, would have constituted an offence in any part of the United Kingdom, or a service offence, if it had been done in any part of the United Kingdom by a member of Her Majesty's forces;

d

“service law”, in relation to a member State other than the United Kingdom, means the law governing all or any of the naval, military or air forces of that State.