UK Offence Report

The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Application to the Armed Forces) Order 2008

UK Statutory Instrument 2008 No. 635 — creates 8 criminal offences.

8offences created
0recorded in force
8revoked
Made
7 March 2008
In force from
1 April 2008
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justice
Made under
Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, No. 635 Defence The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order makes provisions with respect to proceedings before a court-martial under the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957, and with respect to proceedings before a Standing Civilian Court constituted under the Armed Forces Act 1976. The provisions are equivalent (with modifications) to those of Part 1 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (‘the 1996 Act’) which impose duties of disclosure on prosecutors and accused. The modifications provided for in the order are to adjust the working of the provisions to the circumstances of, and legislation governing, proceedings before courts-martial and Standing Civilian Courts, an important example being the fact that courts-martial are not standing courts.

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What Parliament said about it

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