Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00092:clause:1_20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00092
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 20
Character Range: 26871–27546

20  Effect of Summary Authority Rules
(1) If the Summary Authority Rules are invalid because the AMC was not a validly created court, those Rules are taken to have, and always to have had, the effect they would have during the relevant period if they had been valid.
(2) In this item:
relevant period means the period:
 (a) starting on 1 October 2007; and
 (b) ending immediately before the commencement of the Military Justice (Interim Measures) Act (No. 1) 2009.
Summary Authority Rules means the Summary Authority Rules, as purportedly made, and from time to time amended, by the Chief Military Judge of the AMC under section 149 of the old Defence Force Discipline Act.