Commentary on provisions of Act Section 5: The Summary Appeal Court: power to rectify mistakes
This section introduces a similar power to section 4, allowing rules under section 151 of the AFA 2006 in respect of the Summary Appeal Court ("SAC rules") to give that court powers to vary or rescind punishments or activation orders in cases where it appears to the court that it had no power to award the punishment or make the order or confirm the commanding officer’s decision to do so.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new paragraph (ga) in section 151(3) of the AFA 2006 to enable the SAC rules to include these powers.
	Subsection (3) inserts a new subsection (5A) in section 151 of the AFA 2006 to allow the SAC rules to include provisions on the commencement of punishments or orders varied by the court (this provision is to be read with section 195 of the AFA 2006 which deems activation orders to be a "punishment" for the purposes of section 195 and the rest of Chapters 2 and 3 of Part 6 of the AFA 2006).