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SCHEDULE 25Amendments to the Armed Forces Act 2006

PART 7Miscellaneous further amendments

Amendments to Part 10 (Court Martial decisions: appeal and review)

I170

In section 273 (review of unduly lenient sentence by Court Martial Appeal Court)—

a

in subsection (6)(b), for the words from “section 224A” to the end substitute

—

i

section 273(3) or 283(3) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 218A(1B) or (2) (life sentence for second listed offence);

ii

section 274(3) or 285(3) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 219(1A) or (2) (life sentence for certain dangerous offenders aged 18 or over);

iii

section 258(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 221(2) (life sentence for certain dangerous offenders aged under 18);

iv

section 313(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 225(2) (third drug trafficking offence);

v

section 314(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 226(2) (third domestic burglary);

vi

section 311(2) of the Sentencing Code as a result of section 227(2) (firearms offences); or

vii

section 227A(1A) or (2) (threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises);

b

in subsection (7), for “an order specified in subsection (7A)” substitute “ a minimum term order under section 321 of the Sentencing Code ”;

c

omit subsection (7A).