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Air Force Act, 1950 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....or confinement of a person according to the usages of the service and includes military or naval custody: (vi) "air force law" means the law enacted by this Act and the rules made there under and includes the usages of the service; (vii) "air force reward" includes any gratuity or annuity for long service or good conduct, badge pay or pension, and any other air force pecuniary reward; (viii) "airman" means any person subject to this Act other than an officer; (ix) "air officer" means any officer of the Air Force above the rank of group captain; (x) "air signal" means any signal intended for the guidance of aircraft, whether given by flag, ground signal, light, wind indicator or in any manner whatsoever: (xi) "Chief Legal Adviser" means a person appointed as such by5[the Chief of the Air Staff] to give advice on matters relating to air force law and to perform such other duties of a legal character as may arise in connection therewith; (xii) "civil offence" means an offence which is triable by a criminal court; (xiii) "civil prison" means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894-, or under any other law for the time.....

Army Act, 1950 Chapter XIII

Title: Execution of Sentences

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....or part of a building, or any place under its control, as a military prison for the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment under this Act. Section 176 - Informality or error in the order or warrant Whenever any person is sentenced to transportation or imprisonment under this Act, and is undergoing the sentence in any place or manner in which he might be confined under a lawful order or warrant in pursuance of this Act, the confinement of such person shall not be deemed to be illegal only by reason of any informality or error in or as respects the order, warrant or other document, or the authority by which, or in pursuance whereof such person was brought into or is confined in any such place, and any such order, warrant or document may be amended accordingly. Section 177 - Power to make rules in respect of prisons and prisoners The Central Government may make rules providing-- (a) for the government, management and regulation of military prisons; (b) for the appointment, removal and powers of inspectors, visitors, governors and officers thereof; (c) for the labour of prisoners undergoing confinement therein, and for enabling persons to earn, by special.....

Army Act, 1950 Section 166

Title: Form of Sentence of Death

State: Central

Year: 1950

In awarding a sentence of death a court-martial shall, in its discretion, direct that the offender shall suffer death by being hanged by the neck until he be dead, or shall suffer death by being shot to dead.

Air Force Act, 1950 Chapter X

Title: Courts-martial

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....with under section 82 or section 86, he shall not be liable to be tried again for the same offence by a court-martial or dealt with under the said sections. Section 121` - Period of limitation for trial (1) Except as provided by sub-sec. (2), no trial by court-martial of any person subject to this Act for any offence shall be commenced after the expiration of a period of three years from the date of such offence. (2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall not apply to a trial for an offence of desertion or fraudulent enrolment or for any of the offences mentioned in section 37. (3) In the computation of the period of time mentioned in sub-section (1) any time spent by such person as a prisoner of war, or in enemy territory, or in evading arrest after the commission of the offence, shall be excluded. (4) No trial for an offence of desertion, other than desertion of active service or of fraudulent enrolment shall be commened 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 portion of the Air Force. Section 122 - Liability of offender.....

Air Force Act, 1950 Section 114

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 flight-lieutenant.

Air Force Act, 1950 Chapter XIII

Title: Execution of Sentences

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....under its control, as an air force prison or detention barracks for the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment or detention under this Act. Section 174 - Informality or error in the order or warrants Whenever a person is sentenced to transportation, imprisonment or detention under this Act, and is undergoing the sentence in any place or manner in which he might be confined under a lawful order or warrant in pursuance of this Act, the confinement of such person shall not be deemed to be illegal only by reason of any informality or error in or as respects the order, warrant or other document, or the authority by which, or in pursuance whereof such person was brought into or is confined in any such place, and any such order, warrant or document may be amended accordingly. Section 175 - Power to make rules in respect of prisons and prisoners The Central Government may make rules providing .-- (a) for the government, management and regulation of ail force prisons and detention barracks; (b) for the appointment, removal and power of inspectors, visitors, governors and officers thereof; (c) for the labour of prisoners undergoing confinement therein, and for.....

Air Force Act, 1950 Section 163

Title: Form of Sentence of Death

State: Central

Year: 1950

In awarding a sentence of death, a court- martial shall, in its discretion, direct that the offender shall suffer death by being hanged by the neck until he be dead or shall suffer death by being shot to death.

Army Act, 1950 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....British Act which one mainly to the peculiar traditions of the British Navy, is materially different in many respects from the British Army Act and Air Force Acts. The revision of the Naval Discipline Act has, therefore, proved a more difficult problem. In the United Kingdom, a special committee has been appointed to examine the question of revision of the British Naval Act It was felt that it would be an advantage to await the report of that committee and benefit by its recommendations, The revision of the Naval Discipline Act has, therefore, been suspended for the present. It is expected that the Committee's report will be available within the next few months, after which the revision of the Naval Discipline Act will be taken up. It is, however, not considered necessary to delay the revision of the Army and Air Force Acts any longer and they are therefore being introduced during this session of the Legislature. 3. The main objects of the revision of the Army Act are (a) to make it self-sufficient by incorporating the relevant provisions from certain other related enactments; (b) to adapt the existing provisions to suit the new constitutional set up and present day.....