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For the purposes of paragraph 2 “is an offence under section 44 or 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2007…

paragraph 4 of SCHEDULE of The Armed Forces (Review of Court Martial Sentence) Order 2009

This offence was read from the text as made, and no revised version was available, so a later revocation could not be ruled out. Check the current text at legislation.gov.uk.

What the provision says

4 For the purposes of paragraph 2 “is an offence under section 44 or 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 consisting of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence set out in paragraph 1(a) to (d) or paragraph 1(f)” includes “consists of inciting the commission of an offence set out in paragraph 1(a) to (d) or paragraph 1(f)”.

Text as made, from legislation.gov.uk. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This is the text as originally made; later amendments are not shown here.

Who it binds, and what has to be proved

Binds
a person
Conduct
breaching the provision
Fault element
Strict liability
Burden of proof
No statutory defence — prosecution proves everything

The prosecution must prove that the conduct happened. This is a strict liability offence as drafted: the provision uses no word of intention, knowledge, recklessness or negligence, so there is no need to show that a person meant to do it, knew about it, or was careless.

Intention, knowledge and carelessness are irrelevant to guilt. They may still matter a great deal to sentence.

The provision states no defence, so the prosecution bears the burden on every element of the offence.

Classifier’s reasoning: no word of intention, knowledge, recklessness or negligence in the offence or its provision.

What would breach paragraph 4 of SCHEDULE?

These are illustrations, not law. They are generated from the provision’s own words to show the shape of the offence. Whether any particular conduct is caught depends on the full text, on any amendment since, and on the facts.

  1. Doing what the provision prohibits, or failing to do what it requires under the Armed Forces (Review of Court Martial Sentence) Order 2009.

Penalty

Mode of trial
Not determined
Maximum fine
Not determined
Maximum prison (summary)
Not determined

no penalty is stated in this instrument; it may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence.

No penalty was determined from this instrument. It may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence. Absence of a figure here is not evidence that the offence carries no penalty.

Sentencing

Offences of this kind are usually sentenced under the guidelines below. This is a mapping by subject, not a finding about this provision, and the links go to a search of the Sentencing Council’s own site.

Prosecution figures

No published per-offence figure was found for this provision, and it could not be matched to a Ministry of Justice offence code. Offences created by statutory instrument very largely do not have one. Absence of a figure is not evidence that the offence is unused.

Status and lifecycle

Current status
Status not determined
Made
5 May 2009
In force from
31 October 2009
Extent
Not stated

How this was established: read from the text as made; no revised version available, so later revocation could not be ruled out.

What the instrument is for

(This note is not part of the Order) — the explanatory note published with the instrument, © Crown copyright.

Section 273 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (“the Act”) empowers the Attorney General to refer cases to the Court Martial Appeal Court, with the leave of that court, if he considers that the sentence imposed by the Court Martial was unduly lenient and if the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales would be indictable only or if the case is of a description specified for the purposes of section 273(3). Article 3 of this Order provides that any case of a description specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be specified for the purposes of section 273(3) of the Act. Paragraph 1 of the Schedule specifies any case where the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales is one of the offences listed. Subject to paragraph 3, “the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales” has the same meaning in this Order as in section 42(8) of the Act. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule specifies any case where the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales consists of attempting the commission of an offence set out in paragraph 1(a) to (d) or paragraph 1(f) or is an offence under section 44 or 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 consisting of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence set out in paragraph 1(a) to (d) or paragraph 1(f). Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Schedule make transitional provisions. The provisions in this Order are broadly equivalent to those applied in the civilian court which are set out in Part 4 (Review of Sentencing) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33) and the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Reviews of Sentencing) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1116).

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Other offences in the same instrument

How this was identified as an offence

Everything above rests on the judgement that this provision creates a criminal offence, rather than mentioning one. That judgement is made by rule, from the words of the provision, and this is the rule that made it — with a confidence of 0.62.

Basis
the provision says an offence is committed “if” something happens
Confidence
0.62 of 1.00

A provision that states a penalty for an offence created elsewhere can read very like one that creates an offence, and the rules can mistake the one for the other. If the text quoted above sets a penalty for something made an offence by another provision, treat the classification on this page with that in mind, and read the instrument.

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