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(1)A court or officer dealing with an offender for a service offence (“the current offence”) must in considering the seriousness of the offence—
(a)consider the offender’s culpability in committing the offence and any harm which the offence caused, was intended to cause or could foreseeably have caused;
(b)if the offender has one or more previous convictions, treat as an aggravating factor each previous conviction that the court or officer considers can reasonably be so treated;
(c)if the offender committed the current offence while—
(i)charged with another service offence and released from service custody, or
(ii)on bail,
treat the fact that it was committed in those circumstances as an aggravating factor.
(2)In considering whether a previous conviction can reasonably be treated as an aggravating factor the court or officer must have regard (in particular) to—
(a)the nature of the offence to which the conviction relates and its relevance to the current offence; and
(b)the time that has elapsed since the conviction.
(3)Any reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a previous conviction is to be read as a reference to—
(a)a previous conviction of a service offence; or
(b)a previous conviction by a court in the British Islands of an offence other than a service offence.
(4)Nothing in this section prevents the court or officer from treating a previous conviction by a court outside the British Islands as an aggravating factor in any case where the court or officer considers it appropriate to do so.
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