http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/21/section/6/2019-07-01Armed Forces Act 2016An Act to continue the Armed Forces Act 2006; to make provision about service discipline; to make provision about war pensions committees established under section 25 of the Social Security Act 1989; to make provision about Ministry of Defence fire-fighters; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-11-12Expert Participation2019-07-01 61In section 190 of AFA 2006 (suspension of sentence of service detention), for subsection (2) (length of period of suspension) substitute—2The operational period must be a period of not less than 3 months beginning with the date of the order made under this section.2AThe maximum length of the operational period is—awhere subsection (2B) applies, 24 months; andbotherwise, 12 months.2BThis subsection applies where the order under this section is made by—athe Court Martial,bthe Court Martial Appeal Court, orcthe Supreme Court on an appeal brought from the Court Martial Appeal Court,except where the order is made in circumstances in which Schedule 3A applies (sentencing powers in cases involving election under section 129 for trial by Court Martial) or on an appeal arising out of a case in which that Schedule applied.2The amendment made by this section applies only in relation to an order relating to a sentence of service detention for an offence committed on or after the day on which it comes into force.3Where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it must be taken for the purposes of subsection (2) to have been committed on the first of those days.S. 6 in force at 1.7.2019 by S.I. 2019/961, reg. 2(2)