Title : Custody of Offenders
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) Any person subject to this Act who is charged with an offence may be taken into military custody. (2) Any such person may be ordered into military custody by any superior officer. (3) An officer may order into military custody any officer, though he may be of higher rank, engaged in a quarrel, affray or disorder. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Kinds of Courts-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
For the purposes of this Act there shall be four kinds of courts-martial, that is to say,-- (a) general courts-martial; (b) district courts-martial; (c) summary general courts-martial; and (d) summary courts-martial. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Powers of General and Summary General Courts-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
A general or summary general court-martial shall have power to try any person subject to this Act for any offence punishable therein and to pass any sentence authorised thereby. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Place of Trial
State : Central
Year : 1950
Any person subject to this Act who commits any offence against it may be tried and punished for such offence in any place whatever. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Signatures
State : Central
Year : 1950
In any proceeding under this Act, any application, certificate, warrant, reply or other document purporting to be signed by an officer in the service of the Government shall, on production, be presumed to have been duly signed by the person by whom and in the character in which it purports to have been signed, until the contrary is shown. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Enrolment Paper
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) Any enrolment paper purporting to be signed by an enrolling officer shall, in proceedings under this Act, be evidence of the person enrolled having given the answers to questions which he is therein represented as having given. (2) The enrolment of such person may be proved by the production of the original or a copy of his enrolment paper purporting to be certified to be a true copy by the officer having the custody of the enrolment paper. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Certain Documents
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) A letter, return or other documentrespecting the service of any person, or the cashiering, dismissal or dischargeof any person from, any portion of the regular Army, or respecting thecircumstance of any person not having served in, or belonged to, any portion ofthe Forces, if purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the CentralGovernment or 1 [the Chief of the Army Staff], or by any prescribedofficer, shall be evidence of the facts stated in such letter,return or other document. (2) An Army,Navy or Air Force List of Gazette purporting to be published by authority shall beevidence of the status and rank of the officers, junior commissioned officersor warrant officers therein mentioned, and of anyappointment held by them and of the corps, battalion or arm orbranch of the services..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Finding and Sentence Not Valid, Unless Confirmed
State : Central
Year : 1950
No finding or sentence of a general, district or summary general, court-martial shall be valid except so far as it may be confirmed as provided by this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Confirming of Findings and Sentences on Board a Ship
State : Central
Year : 1950
When any person subject to this Act is tried and sentenced by a court-martial while on board a ship, the finding and sentence so far as not confirmed and executed on board the ship, may be confirmed and executed in like manner as if such person had been tried at the port of disembarkation. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Remedy Against Order, Finding or Sentence of Court-martial
State : Central
Year : 1950
(1) Anyperson subject to this Act who considers himselfaggrieved by any order passed byanycourt-martial may present a petition to the officer or authority empowered toconfirm any finding or sentence of such court-martial, and the confirmingauthority may take such steps as may be considered necessary to satisfy itselfas to the correctness, legality or propriety of the orderpassed or as to the regularity of any proceeding to which the orderrelates. (2) Anyperson subject to this Act who considers himselfaggrieved by a finding or sentence of any court-martial which has beenconfirmed, may present a petition to the Central Government, 1 [the Chiefof the Army Staff or any prescribed officer superior in command to the one whoconfirmed such finding or sentence, and the Central Government, 1..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section