SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 25Amendments to the Armed Forces Act 2006

PART 5Amendments to Chapter 6 of Part 8: sentences for certain offences

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In section 217 (mandatory life imprisonment), for subsection (2) substitute—

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Where on conviction the offender is 21 or over, the court must sentence the offender to imprisonment for life.

3

Where on conviction the offender is aged under 21, the court must pass on the offender a sentence of custody for life under section 275 of the Sentencing Code.

4

Subsection (3) does not apply where the offender is liable to be detained under section 218 (detention at Her Majesty's pleasure for offender under 18).