Trial and punishment of offences under Services Acts

6 Abrogation of common law corroboration rules.

(1)

For the avoidance of doubt section 32 of the M1Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (abolition of corroboration rules) and section 34(2) of the M2Criminal Justice Act 1988 (abrogation of requirements for corroboration warning) apply to any service disciplinary proceedings in which the rules abrogated by those sections would have been applied.

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(3)

In this section “service disciplinary proceedings” means proceedings F2before—

(a)

the Court Martial;

(b)

the Summary Appeal Court;

(c)

the Service Civilian Court;

(d)

the Court Martial Appeal Court; or

(e)

the Supreme Court on an appeal brought from the Court Martial Appeal Court.