SCHEDULES

SECOND SCHEDULE Application of Act to attached Military and Air Forces

Section 113.

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The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (h) of section 43(1) of this Act:—

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reduction to the ranks or any less reduction in rank.

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For the references to disrating in subsection (4) of the said section 43 there shall be substituted references to reduction to the ranks, and subsection (5) of that section shall not apply.

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Notwithstanding anything in section two hundred and one of the M1Army Act 1955, or the M2Air Force Act 1955, a sentence of reduction to the ranks or any less reduction in rank may be awarded in the case of an offender tried under F6section 52Dof this Act.

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In subsection (1) of section 52G, the reference to an officer of Her Majesty’s naval forces below the rank of commander shall be construed as a reference to an officer of the regular forces or the regular air force of corresponding rank; and in relation to the trial of such an officer F7subsection (5)of that section shall have effect as if the reference to officers of Her Majesty’s naval forces included a reference to officers of the regular forces or of the regular air force, as the case may be.

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In relation to the trial of a member of the regular forces or of the regular air force, section fifty-four shall have effect:—

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as if the officers described in subsection (1) included officers of those forces or of that force, as the case may be;

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as if any other reference in that section to a specified naval rank included a reference to the corresponding military or air-force rank.

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In subsection (2) of section fifty-two of this Act, for the words “after he ceased to be subject thereto” there shall be substituted the words “next after the earliest date on which he is no longer subject to service law”.

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Any reference in this Act to the uniform of any of Her Majesty’s naval forces, or to illegal absence from any of those forces, shall be construed as a reference to the uniform of, or to illegal absence from, any of the regular forces, or the regular air force, as the case may be.

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