Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY COURT RULES 2007 - REG 4

                In these Rules, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Act" means the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 .

"arraign" , in relation to an accused person at a trial, means reading a charge to the accused person, calling upon the accused person to plead to the charge, and recording the accused person's plea to the charge.

"assembled" , in relation to a military jury, means the assembly of military jurors at the date, time and place mentioned in a summons issued under rule 33.

"authorized member of the Defence Force" has the same meaning as in section 87 of the Act.

"defending officer" means a person who is instructed by an accused person or a convicted person to represent the accused person or convicted person before the Australian Military Court and is entitled to do so under section 136 of the Act.

PMKeyS database means the database maintained by the Department of Defence:

                (a)    containing names and service particulars of members of the Defence Force; and

               (b)    used by the Registrar for the purpose of selecting potential military jurors and reserve military jurors.

"prosecuting officer" means the Director of Military Prosecutions or a person authorised to represent the Director of Military Prosecutions under section 188GB of the Act.

"recorder" means a person who records the spoken word, by longhand, shorthand, mechanical or other means, and includes a person who operates or transcribes mechanical or other recordings of the spoken word.

"Registrar" has the meaning given by section 188FB of the Act.

Note 1    Section 188FM of the Act provides that the Registrar may delegate any or all of his or her functions.

Note 2    The following terms are defined in the Act:

(a)   accused person  -- subsection 3 (1);

(b)   Australian Military Court  -- section 114;

(ba) commanding officer  -- section 5;

(c)    legal officer  -- subsection 3 (1);

(d)   Military Judge  -- subsection 3 (1);

(e)   Reserves  -- subsection 3 (1);

(f)    service police officer  -- subsection 3 (1);

(g)   summary authority  -- subsection 3 (1).