The Armed Forces (Review of Court Martial Sentence) Order 2009
Section 273 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (“the Act”) empowers the Attorney General to refer cases to the Court Martial Appeal Court, with the leave of that court, if he considers that the sentence imposed by the Court Martial was unduly lenient and if the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales would be indictable only or if the case is of a description specified for the purposes of section 273(3).