Courts-Martial Appeals Act 1983

F23[Review of certain sentences.

22B

22B.(1) An application by the Director of Military Prosecutions under section 212B (inserted by the Defence (Amendment) Act 2007) of the Defence Act 1954 to review a sentence awarded by a court-martial shall be made, on notice given to the convicted person, within 28 days or such longer period not exceeding 56 days as the Court may, on application to it in that behalf, determine, from the day on which the sentence was awarded.

(2) On such an application, the Court may either

(a) quash the sentence and in its place award to the convicted person the sentence it considers appropriate, being a sentence which could have been awarded to him by the court-martial concerned, or

(b) refuse the application.]

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F23

Inserted (1.09.2008) by Defence (Amendment) Act 2007 (24/2007), s. 11 and sch. 4, S.I. No. 254 of 2008.