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Court Martial Act 2007

Miscellaneous and administrative provisions - Transitional provisions, repeal, and consequential amendments - Transitional provisions

85: What happens if court-martial has been convened on commencement of this Act

You could also call this:

"What happens to a court-martial that was already set up when this law started?"

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If a court-martial was already set up when this Act started, it applies to those courts-martial. You need to look at courts-martial that were set up under the 1971 Act. These are the ones that were set up before this Act started and had not been stopped. If this section applies to a court-martial, what happens next is that the court-martial keeps going under the old rules. The court-martial continues as if this new Act did not exist. This means the old rules from the 1971 Act are still used to finish the court-martial proceedings.

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85What happens if court-martial has been convened on commencement of this Act

  1. This section applies to courts-martial under the 1971 Act—

  2. that were convened before the commencement of this Act; and
    1. that have not been dissolved before that commencement.

      1. Proceedings before courts-martial to which this section applies are to be continued and completed under the 1971 Act as if this Act had not been enacted.