Title : Composition of General Court-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
A general court-martial shall consist of not less than five officers, each of whom has held a commission for not less than three whole years and of whom not less than four are of a rank not below that of captain. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Composition of District Court-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
A district court-martial shall consist of not less than three officers, each of whom has held a commission for not less than two whole years. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Composition of Summary General Court-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
A summary general court-martial shall consist of not less than three officers. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presiding Officer
State : Central
Year : 1950
At every general, district or summary general court-martial the senior member shall be the presiding officer. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Judge Advocate
State : Central
Year : 1950
Every general court-martial shall, and every district or summary general court-martial may, be attended by a judge-advocate, who shall be either an officer belonging to the department of the Judge-Advocate General, or if no such officer is available, an officer approved of by the Judge-Advocate General or any of his deputies. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Challenges
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) At all trials by general, district or summary general court-martial, as soon as the court is assembled, the names of the presiding officer and members shall be read over to the accused, who shall thereupon be asked whether he objects to being tried by any officer sitting on the court. (2) If the accused objects lo any such officer, his objection, and also the reply thereto of the officer objected to, shall be heard and recorded and the remaining officers of the court shall, in the absence of the challenged officer decide on the objection. (3) If the objection is allowed by one-half or more of the votes of the officers entitled to vote, the objection shall be allowed, and the member objected to shall retire, and his vacancy may be filled in the prescribed manner by another..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Judicial Notice
State : Central
Year : 1950
A court-martial may take judicial notice of any matter within the general military knowledge of the members. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Subsequent Fitness of Lunatic Accused for Trial
State : Central
Year : 1950
Where any accused person, having been found by reason of unsoundness of mind to be incapable of making his defence, is in custody or under detention under section 145, the officer commanding the army, army corps, division or brigade within the area of whose command the accused is in custody or is detained, or any other officer prescribed in this behalf, may-- (a) if such person is in custody under sub-section (4) of section 145, on the report of a medical officer that he is capable of making his defence; or (b) if such person is detained in a jail under sub-section (5) of section 145. on a certificate of the Inspector General of Prisons, and if such person is detained in a lunatic asylum under the said sub-section on a certificate of any two or more of the visitors of such asylum..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Order for Custody and Disposal of Property Pending Trial
State : Central
Year : 1950
When any property regarding which any offence appears to have been committed, or which appears to have been used for the commission of any offence, is produced before a court-martial during a trial, the court may make such order as it thinks fit for the proper custody of such property pending the conclusion of the trial, and if the property is subject to speedy or natural decay may, after recording such evidence as it thinks necessary, order it to be sold or otherwise disposed of. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Confirm Finding and Sentence of General Court-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
The findings and sentences of general courts-martial may be confirmed by the Central Government, or by any officer empowered in this behalf by warrant of the Central Government. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section