Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Act 2024
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Amendment of section 9 of Act of 1981 | ||
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12. Section 9 of the Act of 1981 is amended— | ||
(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): | ||
“(1) This Act applies, with the necessary modifications, to the trial by court-martial of an applicable offence.”, | ||
(b) in subsection (2)— | ||
(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a): | ||
“(a) for the references to a judge in section 3, 7 or 8 there shall be substituted references to a military judge, and”, | ||
(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (aa): | ||
“(aa) in section 8(8) for the reference to the Director of Public Prosecutions there shall be substituted a reference to the Director.”, | ||
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(iii) by the deletion of paragraph (b), | ||
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(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2): | ||
“(3) In this section, ‘court-martial’, ‘Director’ (other than in the reference to the Director of Public Prosecutions) and ‘military judge’ have the same meanings as they have in the Defence Act 1954 .”. |