Armed Forces Act 2006

245Section 244: supplementaryU.K.
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(1)Subsections (2) to (5) apply for the purposes of section 244.

(2)A person is to be regarded as not subject to any sentence from which he has been released early.

(3)A person is to be regarded as not subject to a suspended sentence of service detention unless an order that the sentence shall take effect has been made.

(4)Subject to subsection (3), a person is to be regarded as subject to any sentence of service detention that has been passed on him but—

(a)has not taken effect; or

(b)as a result of section 290(5) or (6) or 291(6) or (7), has ceased to have effect and has not resumed effect.

(5)A person who has been detained continuously pursuant to two or more sentences of service detention is to be regarded as subject to all of those sentences (whether or not any of them has been served in full).

(6)For the purposes of subsection (5), any periods of detention which would be continuous but for section 290(3), (5) or (6) or 291(5), (6) or (7) are to be treated as continuous.

Commencement Information

I1S. 245 in force at 28.3.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)

I2S. 245 in force at 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4