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17.—(1) The term of any sentence passed by the Appeal Court under section 13, 14 or 15 of this Act shall, unless the Court otherwise direct, begin to run from the time from which it would have begun to run if it had been passed in the proceedings from which the appeal was brought.

(2) A sentence passed by the Appeal Court under any of those sections shall—
 * (a) if passed on an appeal against conviction by a naval court-martial, be deemed, for purposes of the Naval Discipline Act, to be a sentence passed by such a court-martial; and
 * (b) if passed on an appeal against conviction by an army or air force court-martial, be deemed for purposes of the Army Act or the Air Force Act, as the case may be, to be a sentence passed by an army, or as the case may be, an air force court-martial, being a sentence that has been confirmed.

Retrial

18. Except as provided by this Act, where the conviction of a person by court-martial for an offence has been quashed under this Act, he shall not be liable to be tried again for that offence by a court-martial or by any other court.

19.—(1) The Appeal Court shall have the power, on quashing a conviction, to make an order authorising the appellant to be retried by court-martial, but shall only exercise this power when the appeal against conviction is allowed by reason only of evidence received or available to be received by the Court under sections 28 to 30 of this Act and it appears to the Court that the interests of justice require that an order under this section should be made.

(2) This section has effect notwithstanding the restrictions on retrial imposed by section 134 of the Army Act and section 134 of the Air Force Act.

(3) An appellant shall not be retried under this section for an offence other than—
 * (a) the offence of which he was convicted by the original court-martial and in respect of which his appeal is allowed as mentioned in subsection (1) above;
 * (b) any offence of which he could have been convicted at the original court-martial on a charge of the first- mentioned offence; or
 * (c) any offence charged in the alternative in respect of which the court-martial recorded no finding in con- sequence of convicting him of the first-mentioned offence.