Act Info:Preamble1 - AIR FORCE ACT, 1950
Chapter 1
Section1 - Short title and commencement
Section2 - Persons subject to this Act
Section3 - Termination of application of the Act
Section4 - Definitions
Chapter II
Section5 - Application of Act to certain forces under the Central Government
Section6 - Special provision as to rank in certain cases
Section7 - Commanding Officer of person subject to Air Force law under clause (d) of section 2
Section8 - Officer exercising powers in certain cases
Section9 - Power to declare persons to be on active service
Chapter III
Section10 - Commission and appointment
Section11 - Ineligibility of aliens for enrolment
Section12 - Ineligibility of females for enrolment or employment
Section13 - Procedure before enrolling officer
Section14 - Mode of enrolment
Section15 - Validity of enrolment
Section16 - Persons to be attested
Section17 - Mode of attestation
Chapter IV
Section18 - . Tenure of service under the Act.
Section19 - Termination of service by Central Government
Section20 - Dismissal, removal or reduction by Chief of the Air staff and other officers
Section21 - Power to modify certain Fundamental Rights in their application to persons subject to this Act
Section22 - Retirement, release or discharge
Section23 - Certificate on termination of service
Section24 - Discharge or dismissal when out of India
Chapter V
Section25 - Authorised deductions only to be made from pay
Section26 - Remedy of aggrieved airmen
Section27 - Remedy of aggrieved officers
Section28 - Immunity from attachment
Section29 - Immunity from arrest for debt
Section30 - Immunity of persons attending courts-martial from arrest
Section31 - Privileges of reservists
Section32 - Priority in respect of Air Force personnel's litigation
Section33 - Saving of rights and privileges under other laws
Chapter VI
Section34 - Offences in relation to the enemy and punishable with death
Section34 - Offences in relation to the enemy and not punishable with death
Section35 - Offences punishable more severely on active service than at other times
Section37 - Mutiny
Section38 - Desertion and aiding desertion
Section39 - Absence without leave
Section40 - Striking or threatening superior officer
Section41 - Disobedience to superior officer
Section42 - Insubordination and obstruction
Section43 - Fraudulent enrolment
Section44 - false answers on enrolment
Section45 - Unbecoming conduct
Section46 - Certain forms of disgraceful conduct
Section47 - III.--treating a subordinate
Section48 - Intoxication
Section49 - Permitting escape of person in custody
Section50 - Irregularity in connection with arrest or confinement
Section51 - Escape from custody
Section52 - Offences to respect of property
Section53 - Extortion and corruption
Section54 - Making away with equipment
Section55 - Injury to property
Section56 - False accusation
Section57 - Falsifying official documents and false declaration
Section58 - Signing in blank and failure to report
Section59 - Offences relating to courts-martial
Section60 - False evidence
Section61 - Unlawful detention of pay
Section62 - Offences in relation to aircraft and flying
Section63 - Other offences relating to aircraft and flying
Section64 - Disobedience of lawful command of captain of aircraft
Section65 - Violation of good order and air force discipline
Section66 - Miscellaneous offences
Section67 - Attempt
Section68 - Abetment of offences that have been committed
Section69 - Abetment of offences punishable with death and not committed
Section70 - Abetment of offences punishable with imprisonment and not committed
Section71 - Civil offences
Section72 - Civil offence not triable by court-martial
Chapter VII
Section73 - Punishments awardable by courts-martial
Section74 - Alternative punishments awardable by court-martial
Section75 - Combination of punishments
Section76 - Cashiering of officers
Section77 - Field punishment
Section78 - Position of field punishment in scale of punishments
Section79 - Result of certain punishments in the case of a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer
Section80 - Retention in the ranks of a person convicted on active service
Section81 - Punishments otherwise than by court-martial
Section82 - Punishment of persons other than officers and warrant officers
Section83 - Requirement of sanction in certain cases
Section84 - Limit of punishments under section 82
Section85 - Punishments in addition to those specified In section 82
Section86 - Punishment of officers and warrant officers
Section87 - Transmission of proceedings
Section88 - Review of proceedings
Section89 - Superior air force authority
Section90 - Collective fines
Chapter VIII
Section91 - Deductions from pay and allowances of officers
Section92 - Deductions from pay and allowances of airmen
Section93 - Computation of time of absence of custody
Section94 - Pay and allowances daring trial
Section95 - Limit of certain deductions
Section96 - Deduction from public money due to a person
Section97 - Pay and allowances of prisoner of war during inquiry into his conduct
Section98 - Remission of deductions
Section99 - Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from remitted deductions
Section100 - Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from his pay and allowances
Section101 - Period during which a person is deemed to be a prisoner of war
Chapter IX
Section102 - Custody of offenders
Section103 - Duty of commanding officer in regard to detention
Section104 - Interial between committal and court-martial
Section105 - Arrest by civil authorities
Section106 - Capture of deserters
Section107 - Inquiry into absence without leave
Section108 - Provost-marshals
Chapter X
Section109 - Different kinds of courts-martial
Section110 - Power to convene a general court-martial
Section111 - Power to convene a district court - martial
Section112 - Contents of warrants issued under sections 110 and 111
Section113 - Power to convene a summary general court-martial
Section114 - Composition of general court-martial
Section115 - Composition of district court-martial
Section116 - Composition of summary general court-martial
Section117 - Dissolution of court-martial
Section118 - Powers of general and summary general courts-martial
Section119 - Powers of district Court-martial
Section120 - Prohibition of second trial
Section121` - Period of limitation for trial
Section122 - Liability of offender who ceases to be subject to Act
Section123 - Place of trial
Section124 - Choice between criminal court and court-martial
Section125 - Power of criminal court to require delivery of offendec
Section126 - Successive trials by a criminal, court and a court-martial
Chapter XI
Section127 - Presiding Officer
Section128 - Judge Advocate
Section129 - Challenges
Section130 - Oaths of member, Judge advocate and witness
Section131 - Voting by members
Section132 - General rule as to evidence
Section133 - Judicial notice
Section134 - Summoning witnesses
Section135 - Documents exempted from production
Section136 - Commissions for examination of witnesses
Section137 - Examination of a witness on commission
Section138 - Conviction of offence not charged
Section139 - Presumption as to signatures
Section140 - Enrolment paper
Section141 - Presumption as to certain documents
Section142 - Reference by accused to Government officer
Section143 - Evidence of previous convictions and general character
Section144 - Lunacy of accused
Section145 - Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial
Section146 - Transmission to Central Government of orders under section 145
Section147 - Release of lunatic accused
Section148 - Delivery of lunatic accused to relatives
Section149 - Order for custody and disposal of property pending trial
Section150 - Order for disposal of property regarding which offence is committed
Section151 - Powers of court-martial when certain offences are committed by persons not subject to this Act
Chapter XII
Section152 - Finding and sentence not valid, unless confirmed
Section153 - Power to confirm finding and sentence of general court-martial
Section154 - Power to confirm finding and sentence of district court-martial
Section155 - Limitation of powers of confirming authority
Section156 - Power to confirm finding and sentence of summary general court- martial
Section157 - Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences
Section158 - Confirming of findings and sentences on board a ship
Section159 - Revision of finding or sentence
Section160 - Alteration of finding or sentence in certain cases
Section161 - Remedy against order, finding or sentence of court-martial
Section162 - Annulment of proceedings
Chapter XIII
Section163 - Form of sentence of death
Section164 - Commencement of sentence of transportation or imprisonment
Section165 - Execution of sentence of transportation
Section166 - Execution of sentence of imprisonment
Section167 - Temporary custody of offender
Section168 - Execution of sentence of imprisonment in special cases
Section169 - Conveyance of prisoner from place to place
Section170 - Execution of sentence of detention
Section171 - Communication of certain orders to prison officers
Section172 - Execution of sentence of fine
Section173 - Establishment and regulation of air force prisons
Section174 - Informality or error in the order or warrants
Section175 - Power to make rules in respect of prisons and prisoners
Section176 - Restriction of rule-making power in respect to corporal punishment
Chapter XIV
Section177 - Pardon and remission
Section178 - Cancellation of conditional pardon, release on parole or remission
Section179 - Reduction of warrant officer or non-commissioned officer
Section180 - Suspension of sentence of transportation, imprisonment or detention
Section181 - Orders pending suspension
Section182 - Release on suspension
Section183 - Computation of period of suspension
Section184 - Order after suspension
Section185 - Reconsideration of case after suspension
Section186 - Fresh sentence after suspension
Section187 - Scope of power of suspension
Section188 - Effect of suspension and remission on dismissal
Chapter XV
Section189 - Power to make rules
Section190 - Power to make regulations
Section191 - Publication of rules and regulations in Gazette
Section191A - Laying of rules and regulations before Parliament
Section192 - [Repeal]
Chapter XVI
Section193 - Definition of "British officer
Section194 - Powers of British officer