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2013 No. 3234

Defence

The Armed Forces (Remission of Fines) Order 2013

Made

19th December 2013

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 323 of the Armed Forces Act 2006( 1 ):

In accordance with section 373(3)(b) of the Armed Forces Act 2006 a draft of this instrument was laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament.

1. This Order may be cited as the Armed Forces (Remission of Fines) Order 2013 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

2. In section 267 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (power of court to remit fine), after subsection (2) insert—

“ (3) Where under this section the court remits the whole or part of a fine after a term of imprisonment has been fixed under section 269A ( 2 ) , it must reduce the term by the corresponding proportion.

(4) In calculating any reduction required by subsection (3), any fraction of a day is to be ignored. ” .

Anna Soubry

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Defence

19th December 2013

( 1 )

2006 c. 52 .

( 2 )

Section 269A is inserted by section 16(1) of the Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18) .

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