Title : Resignation and Withdrawal from the Post
State : Central
Year : 1968
No member of the Force shall be at liberty,-- (a) to resign his appointment during the term of his engagement; or (b) to withdraw himself from all or any of the duties of his appointment, except with the previous permission in writing of the prescribed authority. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Certificate of Termination of Service
State : Central
Year : 1968
A subordinate officer, or an under-officer or other enrolled person who is retired, discharged, released, removed or dismissed from the service shall be furnished by the officer, to whose command he is subject, with a certificate in the language which is the mother tongue of such person and also in Hindi or English language setting forth-- (a) the authority terminating his service; (b) the cause for such termination; and (c) the full period of his service in the Force. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Collective Fines
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Whenever any weapon or part of a weapon, or ammunition, forming part of the equipment of a unit of the Force, is lost or stolen, an officer not below the rank of the Commandant of a battalion may, after making such enquiry as he thinks fit and subject to the rules, impose a collective fine upon the subordinate officers, under-officers and men of such unit, or upon so many of them as, in his judgment, should be held responsible for such loss or theft. (2) Such fine shall be assessed as a percentage on the pay of the individuals on whom it falls. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Composition of General Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
A General Security Force Court shall consist of not less than five officers, each of whom has held the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police for not less than three whole years and of whom not less than four are of a rank not below that of a confirmed Deputy Superintendent of Police. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section and section 69 "Deputy Superintendent of Police" includes any post of a higher rank and any post declared by Central Government by notification to be an equivalent post as also any post higher in rank than the post so declared. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Dissolution of a Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) If a Security Force Court after the commencement of a trial is reduced below the minimum number of officers required by this Act, it shall be dissolved. (2) If, on account of the illness of the Law Officer or of the accused before the finding, it is impossible to continue the trial, a Security Force Court shall be dissolved. (3) The officer who convened a Security Force Court may dissolve the same if it appears to him that the exigencies of the service or necessities of discipline render it impossible or inexpedient to continue the said Security Force Court. (4) Where a Security Force Court is dissolved under this section the accused may be tried again. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Powers of a General Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
A General Security Force Court shall have the power to try any person subject to this Act for any offence punishable thereunder and to any sentence authorised thereby. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Period of Limitation for Trial for an Offence of Desertion in Certain Cases
State : Central
Year : 1968
No trial for an offence of desertion, other than desertion on active duty, shall be commenced if the person in question, not being an officer, has subsequently to the commission of the offence, served continuously in an exemplary manner for not less than three years with any unit of the Force. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Certain Documents
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) A letter, return or other document respecting the service of any person in, or the dismissal or discharge of any person from, any unit of the Force, or respecting the circumstances of any person not having served in, or belonged to, any unit of the Force, if purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Central Government or the Director-General, or by any prescribed officer, shall be evidence of the facts stated in such letter, return or other document. (2) A Border Security Force List or Gazette purporting to be published by authority shall be evidence of the status and rank of the officers, subordinate officers therein mentioned, and of any appointment held by them and of the battalion, unit, or branch of the Force to which they belong. (3) Where a record is made in any..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Finding and Sentence Not Valid, Unless Confirmed
State : Central
Year : 1968
No finding or sentence of a General Security Force Court or a Petty Security Force Court shall be valid except so far as it may be confirmed as provided by this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Remedy Against Order, Finding or Sentence of Security Force Court
State : Central
Year : 1968
(1) Any person subject to this Act who considers himself aggrieved by any order passed by any Security Force Court may present a petition to the officer or authority empowered to confirm any finding or sentence of such Security Force Court, and the confirming authority may take such steps as may be considered necessary to satisfy itself as to the correctness, legality or propriety of the order passed or as to the regularity of any proceeding to which the order relates. (2) Any person subject to this Act who considers himself aggrieved by a finding or sentence of any Security Force Court which has been confirmed, may present a petition to the Central Government, the Director-General, or any prescribed officer superior in command to the one who confirmed such finding or sentence, and..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section