Armed Forces Act 2006
2006 CHAPTER 52
Commentary
First Group of Parts – Discipline
Part 9 – Sentencing: Principles and Procedures
Chapter 1 – Principles and Procedures applying to Service Courts and Summary Hearings
Service detention and custodial sentences
Section 244: Limit on combined term of sentences of service detention
485.This section prohibits a court or CO from sentencing an offender, or activating a suspended sentence previously imposed on him, if it would result in the offender being subject to sentences of service detention amounting to more than two years in total. If a court or CO purports to do this, the excess period is remitted.
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