The Armed Forces (Alignment of Service Discipline Acts) (No. 2) Order 2008

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

Articles 2, 3 and 4 replace those provisions of the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957 that provide for the appointment of a qualified officer to be the prosecuting authority for the relevant service. The new provisions correspond to section 364 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 which provides for Her Majesty to appoint any person who is qualified in accordance with that section as the Director of Service Prosecutions. Article 5 makes transitory provisions.