Section Text
Subject to the provisions of section81, a commanding officer or such otherofficer as is, with the consent of the Central Government, specified by 1 [the Chiefof the Army Staff], may, in the prescribed manner, proceed against a person subject tothis Act otherwise than as an officer, junior commissionedofficer or warrant officer who is charged with an offence under this Act andaward such person, to the extent prescribed, one or more of the followingpunishments, that is to say,--
(a)imprisonment in military custody up to twenty-eight days;
(b)detention up to twenty-eight days;
(c)confinement to the lines upto twenty-eight days;
(d)extra guards or duties;
(e)deprivation of a position of the nature of an appointment or of corps orworking pay, and in the case of non-commissioned officers, also deprivation ofacting rank or reduction to a lower grade of pay;
(f)forfeiture of good service and good conduct pay;
(g)severe reprimand or reprimand;
(h) fine up to fourteen days'pay in any one month;
(i)penal deductions under clause (g) of section 91;
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1.Substituted by Act 19 of 1955,sec. 2 and Sch., for "theCommander-in-Chief".
2. Clause(j) omitted by Act 37 of 1992, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 6-9-1992).