Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 2172
The Rules of Procedure (Air Force) (Amendment No.2) Rules 1987
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1987 No. 2172
DEFENCE
The Rules of Procedure (Air Force) (Amendment No.2) Rules 1987
| Laid before Parliament | 17th December 1987 |
| Coming into force | 1st January 1988 |
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 103 and 209 of the Air Force Act 1955[1], hereby makes the following Rules:
Citation and commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the Rules of Procedure (Air Force) (Amendment No.2) Rules 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.
Amendment
2. The Rules of Procedure (Air Force) (Amendment) Rules 1987[2] shall take effect as if for rule 3(2) there were substituted the following:-" (2) In Rule 74 for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following:-" (2) Where the accused is found guilty by a general court-martial or a field general court-martial of two or more offences against s.70 of the Act, consisting in the commission of civil offences for which a civil court in England could award imprisonment, the court-martial may by its sentence award, for any of the said offences, a term of imprisonment or may make a custodial order, in which event that term or order shall run from the expiry of a term or order awarded or made by that sentence for any other of those offences.".
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George Younger
Secretary of State for Defence
Dated 16th December 1987
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Rules)
ISBN 0 11 078172 4
Notes:[1] 1955 c. 19; section 209 was amended by the Armed Forces Act 1976 (c. 52), Schedule 9, paragraph 5.
[2] S.I. 1987/2000.
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