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Army and Air Force Act 1961

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25Power of authority reviewing summary findings and awards

In subsection (3) of section one hundred and fifteen of the Army Act, 1955, and in subsection (3) of section one hundred and fifteen of the Air Force Act, 1955 (which subsections enable an authority reviewing a finding on a charge that has been dealt with summarily to quash the finding, and require an award to be quashed where a finding is quashed) the words " and if the finding is quashed the authority shall also quash the award " shall cease to have effect; and after each of the said subsections there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(3A)If a finding in any proceedings is quashed under the last foregoing subsection and the award made in those proceedings relates only to the finding quashed, the authority shall also quash the award; and if the award relates also to any other finding and it appears to the authority that the award was not warranted by this Act in respect of that other finding, the authority may vary the award by substituting such punishment or punishments as the authority may think proper, being a punishment or punishments which could have been included in the original award in relation to that other finding, and not being in the opinion of the authority more severe than the punishment or punishments included in the original award.

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