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Armed Forces Act 1996

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39(1)Section 92 (challenges by accused to members of court-martial) shall be amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1), for the word “officer” there shall be substituted the word “member”.

(3)In subsection (2)—

(a)for the word “they” there shall be substituted the words “the officers appointed members”; and

(b)for the words “those officers” there shall be substituted the words “the members”.

(4)In subsection (3)—

(a)for the word “officer” there shall be substituted the word “member”; and

(b)for the words from “considered” to the end there shall be substituted the words “determined by the judge advocate”.

(5)In subsection (4)—

(a)for the words from “objection” to “it” there shall be substituted the words “an objection to the president is allowed”; and

(b)for the word “convening” there shall be substituted the words “court administration”.

(6)In subsection (5)—

(a)for the words from “objection” to “it” there shall be substituted the words “an objection to any other officer appointed a member of the court is allowed”;

(b)for the word “member” in the second place it appears there shall be substituted the word “officer”; and

(c)for the word “members” in the second place it appears there shall be substituted the word “officers”.

(7)After subsection (5) there shall be added the following subsection—

(6)If an objection to the judge advocate is allowed, the judge advocate shall retire and another judge advocate shall be appointed by or on behalf of the Judge Advocate General.

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