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
SERVICE PRIVILEGES
OFFENCES
PUNISHMENTS
PENAL DEDUCTIONS
ARREST AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
COURTS-MARTIAL
PROCEDURE OF COURTS-MATRIAL
CONFIRMATION AND REVISION
EXECUTION OF SENTENCES
PARDONS REMISSIONS AND SUSPENSIONS
RULES
TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
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