You can ask for your sentence to be looked at again by lodging a petition with the Authority. You must use the correct form when you do this. You need to give the petition to the person in charge of where you are being held. You are allowed to lodge a petition against your sentence if you are a service prisoner or detainee. The person in charge must send your petition to the Authority as soon as they can. This is so the Authority can consider your petition.

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152: Functions and powers of Authority, or

"The Authority's job is to review sentences given by the Court Martial."

154: Authority must consider petition for reconsideration, or

"The Authority must think about your petition to change a punishment."

Part 8Reconsideration of sentences of imprisonment or detention

153Petition for reconsideration

A service prisoner or detainee may lodge a petition against his or her sentence with the Authority.
The petition—
must be in the prescribed form; and
must be handed to the officer in charge of the place where the service prisoner or detainee is confined.

The officer in charge of that place must forward the petition to the Authority as soon as practicable after receiving it.

Notes

Section 153: substituted, on 1 July 2009, by section 44 of the Armed Forces Discipline Amendment Act (No 2) 2007 (2007 No 98).