The Air Force Act `1950
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the government of the Air Force.
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF ACT IN CERTAIN CASES
COMMISSION, APPOINTMENT AND ENROLMENT
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
- 18Tenure of service under the Act
- 19Termination of service by Central Government
- 20Dismissal, removal or reduction by Chief of the Air staff and other officers
- 21Power to modify certain fundamental rights in their application to persons subject to this Act
- 22Retirement, release or discharge
- 23Certificate on termination of service
- 24Discharge or dismissal when out of India
SERVICE PRIVILEGES
- 25Authorised deductions only to be made from pay
- 26Remedy of aggrieved airmen
- 27Remedy of aggrieved officers
- 28Immunity from attachment
- 29Immunity from arrest for debt
- 30Immunity of persons attending courts-martial from arrest
- 31Privileges of reservists
- 32Priority in respect of Air Force personnel's litigation
- 33Saving of rights and privileges under other laws
OFFENCES
- 34Offences in relation to the enemy and punishable with death
- 35Offences in relation to the enemy and not punishable with death
- 36Offences punishable more severely on active service than at other times
- 37Mutiny
- 38Desertion and aiding desertion
- 39Absence without leave
- 40Striking or threatening superior officer
- 41Disobedience to superior officer
- 42Insubordination and obstruction
- 43Fraudulent enrolment
- 44False answers on enrolment
- 45Unbecoming conduc
- 46Certain forms of disgraceful conduct
- 47III-treating a subordinat
- 48Intoxication
- 49Permitting escape of person in custody
- 50Irregularity in connection with arrest or confinement
- 51Escape from custody
- 52Offences to respect of property
- 53Extortion and corruption
- 54Making away with equipmen
- 55Injury to property
- 56False accusation
- 57Falsifying official documents and false declaration
- 58Signing in blank and failure to report
- 59Offences relating to courts-martial
- 60False evidenc
- 61Unlawful detention of pay
- 62Offences in relation to aircraft and flyin
- 63Other offences relating to aircraft and flying
- 64Disobedience of lawful command of captain of aircraft
- 65Violation of good order and air force discipline
- 66Miscellaneous offences
- 67Attempt
- 68Abetment of offences that have been committed
- 69Abetment of offences punishable with death and not committed
- 70Abetment of offences punishable with imprisonment and not committed
- 71Civil offence
- 72Civil offences not triable by court-martial
PUNISHMENTS
- 73Punishments awardable by courts-martial
- 74Alternative punishments awardable by court-martial
- 75Combination of punishments
- 76Cashiering of officer
- 77Field punishment
- 78Position of field punishment in scale of punishment
- 79Result of certain punishments in the case of a warrant officer or a non-commissioned office
- 80Retention in the ranks of a person convicted on active service
- 81Punishments otherwise than by court-martia
- 82Punishment of persons other than officers and warrant officers
- 83Requirement of sanction in certain case
- 84Limit of punishments under section 82
- 85Punishments in addition to those specified in section 8
- 86Punishment of officers and warrant officers
- 87Transmission of proceedings
- 88Review of proceeding
- 89Superior air force authorit
- 90Collective fines
PENAL DEDUCTIONS
- 91Deductions from pay and allowances of officers
- 92Deductions from pay and allowances of airme
- 93Computation of time of absence of custody
- 94Pay and allowances daring trial
- 95Limit of certain deductions
- 96Deduction from public money due to a person
- 97Pay and allowances of prisoner of war during inquiry into his conduct
- 98Remission of deductions
- 99Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from remitted deductions
- 100Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from his pay and allowances
- 101Period during which a person is deemed to be a prisoner of wa
ARREST AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
COURTS-MARTIAL
- 109Different kinds of courts-martial
- 110Power to convene a general court-martial
- 111Power to convene a district court-martial
- 112Contents of warrants issued under sections 110 and 11
- 113Power to convene a summary general court-martial
- 114Composition of general court-martial
- 115Composition of district court-martial
- 116Composition of summary general court-martial
- 117Dissolution of court-martial
- 118Powers of general and summary general courts-martial
- 119Powers of district Court-martial
- 120Prohibition of second trial
- 121Period of limitation for trial
- 122Liability of offender who ceases to be subject to Act
- 123Place of tria
- 124Choice between criminal court and court-martial
- 125Power of criminal court to require delivery of offender
- 126Successive trials by a criminal, court and a court-martial
PROCEDURE OF COURTS-MATRIAL
- 127Presiding Officer
- 128Judge Advocate
- 129Challenge
- 130Oaths of member, Judge advocate and witness
- 131Voting by member
- 132General rule as to evidence
- 133Judicial notice
- 134Summoning witnesse
- 135Documents exempted from production
- 136Commissions for examination of witnesses
- 137Examination of a witness on commission
- 138Conviction of offence not charged
- 139Presumption as to signatures
- 140Enrolment paper
- 141Presumption as to certain documents
- 142Reference by accused to Government officer
- 143Evidence of previous convictions and general characte
- 144Lunacy of accuse
- 145Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial
- 146Transmission to Central Government of orders under section 145
- 147Release of lunatic accused
- 148Delivery of lunatic accused to relative
- 149Order for custody and disposal of property pending tria
- 150Order for disposal of property regarding which offence is committe
- 151Powers of courts-martial when certain offences are committed by persons not subject to this Act
CONFIRMATION AND REVISION
- 152Finding and sentence not valid, unless confirmed
- 153Power to confirm finding and sentence of general court-martial
- 154Power to confirm finding and sentence of district court-martial
- 155Limitation of powers of confirming authorit
- 156Power to confirm finding and sentence of summary general courts- martial
- 157Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences
- 158Confirming of findings and sentences on board a ship
- 159Revision of finding or sentence
- 160Alteration of finding or sentence in certain case
- 161Remedy against order, finding or sentence of court-martial
- 162Annulment of proceedings
EXECUTION OF SENTENCES
- 163Form of sentence of deat
- 164Commencement of sentence of transportation or imprisonment
- 165Execution of sentence of transportation
- 166Execution of sentence of imprisonment
- 167Temporary custody of offender
- 168Execution of sentence of imprisonment in special cases
- 169Conveyance of prisoner from place to place
- 170Execution of sentence of detention
- 171Communication of certain orders to prison officers
- 172Execution of sentence of fin
- 173Establishment and regulation of air force prisons
- 174Informality or error in the order or warrants
- 175Power to make rules in respect of prisons and prisoners
- 176Restriction of rule-making power in respect to corporal punishment
PARDONS REMISSIONS AND SUSPENSIONS
- 177Pardon and remission
- 178Cancellation of conditional pardon, release on parole or remission
- 179Reduction of warrant officer or non-commissioned office
- 180Suspension of sentence of transportation, imprisonment or detention
- 181Orders pending suspension
- 182Release on suspension
- 183Computation of period of suspension
- 184Order after suspension
- 185Reconsideration of case after suspensio
- 186Fresh sentence after suspension
- 187Scope of power of suspensio
- 188Effect of suspension and remission on dismissal
RULES
TRANSITORY PROVISIONS