Legalize / United Kingdom / Statutory-Instrument

The Armed Forces Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2024

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2024-10-15

State In force

Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

Source legislation.gov.uk

PDF Download

articles Not indexed

Reform history JSON API

Made: 15th October 2024

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 19(1) of the Armed Forces Act 2016[^f00001].

Citation, interpretation and extent

1

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Armed Forces Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2024.

(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2016.

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the British overseas territories (except Gibraltar).

Commencement of sections 7 to 12 of the Act

2

(1) Sections 7 (immunity from prosecution), 8 (undertakings as to use of evidence), 9 (reduction in sentence) and 12 (supplementary provision) of the Act come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.

(2) Sections 10 (review of sentence following offer of assistance) and 11 (review of sentence following failure to assist) of the Act come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made, in so far as they are not already in force.

Signed

Alistair Carns — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Ministry of Defence — 15th October 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Explanatory Note

This is the fifth set of commencement regulations made under the Armed Forces Act 2016 (c. 21) (“the Act”). They bring sections 7 to 9 and 12 of the Act into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.

The Armed Forces Act 2016 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/562) brought sections 10 and 11 of the Act into force on 17th April 2024, for the purpose of making subordinate legislation only. These Regulations bring sections 10 and 11 fully into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2016 c. 21.

Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.

This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.