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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
1
Short title and commencement
2
Persons subject to this Act
3
Termination of application of the Act
4
Definitions
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF ACT IN CERTAIN CASES
5
Application of Act to certain forces under the Central Government
6
Special provision as to rank in certain cases
7
Commanding Officer of person subject to Air Force law under clause (d) of section 2
8
Officers exercising powers in certain cases
9
Power to declare persons to be on active service
COMMISSION, APPOINTMENT AND ENROLMENT
10
Commission and appointment
11
Ineligibility of aliens for enrolment
12
Ineligibility of females for enrolment or employment
13
Procedure before enrolling officer
14
Mode of enrolment
15
Validity of enrolment
16
Persons to be attested
17
Mode of attestation
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
18
Tenure of service under the Act
19
Termination of service by Central Government
20
Dismissal, removal or reduction by Chief of the Air staff and other officers
21
Power to modify certain fundamental rights in their application to persons subject to this Act
22
Retirement, release or discharge
23
Certificate on termination of service
24
Discharge or dismissal when out of India
SERVICE PRIVILEGES
25
Authorised deductions only to be made from pay
26
Remedy of aggrieved airmen
27
Remedy of aggrieved officers
28
Immunity from attachment
29
Immunity from arrest for debt
30
Immunity of persons attending courts-martial from arrest
31
Privileges of reservists
32
Priority in respect of Air Force personnel's litigation
33
Saving of rights and privileges under other laws
OFFENCES
34
Offences in relation to the enemy and punishable with death
35
Offences in relation to the enemy and not punishable with death
36
Offences punishable more severely on active service than at other times
37
Mutiny
38
Desertion and aiding desertion
39
Absence without leave
40
Striking or threatening superior officer
41
Disobedience to superior officer
42
Insubordination and obstruction
43
Fraudulent enrolment
44
False answers on enrolment
45
Unbecoming conduc
46
Certain forms of disgraceful conduct
47
III-treating a subordinat
48
Intoxication
49
Permitting escape of person in custody
50
Irregularity in connection with arrest or confinement
51
Escape from custody
52
Offences to respect of property
53
Extortion and corruption
54
Making away with equipmen
55
Injury to property
56
False accusation
57
Falsifying official documents and false declaration
58
Signing in blank and failure to report
59
Offences relating to courts-martial
60
False evidenc
61
Unlawful detention of pay
62
Offences in relation to aircraft and flyin
63
Other offences relating to aircraft and flying
64
Disobedience of lawful command of captain of aircraft
65
Violation of good order and air force discipline
66
Miscellaneous offences
67
Attempt
68
Abetment of offences that have been committed
69
Abetment of offences punishable with death and not committed
70
Abetment of offences punishable with imprisonment and not committed
71
Civil offence
72
Civil offences not triable by court-martial
PUNISHMENTS
73
Punishments awardable by courts-martial
74
Alternative punishments awardable by court-martial
75
Combination of punishments
76
Cashiering of officer
77
Field punishment
78
Position of field punishment in scale of punishment
79
Result of certain punishments in the case of a warrant officer or a non-commissioned office
80
Retention in the ranks of a person convicted on active service
81
Punishments otherwise than by court-martia
82
Punishment of persons other than officers and warrant officers
83
Requirement of sanction in certain case
84
Limit of punishments under section 82
85
Punishments in addition to those specified in section 8
86
Punishment of officers and warrant officers
87
Transmission of proceedings
88
Review of proceeding
89
Superior air force authorit
90
Collective fines
PENAL DEDUCTIONS
91
Deductions from pay and allowances of officers
92
Deductions from pay and allowances of airme
93
Computation of time of absence of custody
94
Pay and allowances daring trial
95
Limit of certain deductions
96
Deduction from public money due to a person
97
Pay and allowances of prisoner of war during inquiry into his conduct
98
Remission of deductions
99
Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from remitted deductions
100
Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from his pay and allowances
101
Period during which a person is deemed to be a prisoner of wa
ARREST AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
102
Custody of offender
103
Duty of commanding officer in regard to detention
104
Interval between committal and court-martia
105
Arrest by civil authorities
106
Capture of deserters
107
Inquiry into absence without leave
108
Provost-marshals
COURTS-MARTIAL
109
Different kinds of courts-martial
110
Power to convene a general court-martial
111
Power to convene a district court-martial
112
Contents of warrants issued under sections 110 and 11
113
Power to convene a summary general court-martial
114
Composition of general court-martial
115
Composition of district court-martial
116
Composition of summary general court-martial
117
Dissolution of court-martial
118
Powers of general and summary general courts-martial
119
Powers of district Court-martial
120
Prohibition of second trial
121
Period of limitation for trial
122
Liability of offender who ceases to be subject to Act
123
Place of tria
124
Choice between criminal court and court-martial
125
Power of criminal court to require delivery of offender
126
Successive trials by a criminal, court and a court-martial
PROCEDURE OF COURTS-MATRIAL
127
Presiding Officer
128
Judge Advocate
129
Challenge
130
Oaths of member, Judge advocate and witness
131
Voting by member
132
General rule as to evidence
133
Judicial notice
134
Summoning witnesse
135
Documents exempted from production
136
Commissions for examination of witnesses
137
Examination of a witness on commission
138
Conviction of offence not charged
139
Presumption as to signatures
140
Enrolment paper
141
Presumption as to certain documents
142
Reference by accused to Government officer
143
Evidence of previous convictions and general characte
144
Lunacy of accuse
145
Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial
146
Transmission to Central Government of orders under section 145
147
Release of lunatic accused
148
Delivery of lunatic accused to relative
149
Order for custody and disposal of property pending tria
150
Order for disposal of property regarding which offence is committe
151
Powers of courts-martial when certain offences are committed by persons not subject to this Act
CONFIRMATION AND REVISION
152
Finding and sentence not valid, unless confirmed
153
Power to confirm finding and sentence of general court-martial
154
Power to confirm finding and sentence of district court-martial
155
Limitation of powers of confirming authorit
156
Power to confirm finding and sentence of summary general courts- martial
157
Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences
158
Confirming of findings and sentences on board a ship
159
Revision of finding or sentence
160
Alteration of finding or sentence in certain case
161
Remedy against order, finding or sentence of court-martial
162
Annulment of proceedings
EXECUTION OF SENTENCES
163
Form of sentence of deat
164
Commencement of sentence of transportation or imprisonment
165
Execution of sentence of transportation
166
Execution of sentence of imprisonment
167
Temporary custody of offender
168
Execution of sentence of imprisonment in special cases
169
Conveyance of prisoner from place to place
170
Execution of sentence of detention
171
Communication of certain orders to prison officers
172
Execution of sentence of fin
173
Establishment and regulation of air force prisons
174
Informality or error in the order or warrants
175
Power to make rules in respect of prisons and prisoners
176
Restriction of rule-making power in respect to corporal punishment
PARDONS REMISSIONS AND SUSPENSIONS
177
Pardon and remission
178
Cancellation of conditional pardon, release on parole or remission
179
Reduction of warrant officer or non-commissioned office
180
Suspension of sentence of transportation, imprisonment or detention
181
Orders pending suspension
182
Release on suspension
183
Computation of period of suspension
184
Order after suspension
185
Reconsideration of case after suspensio
186
Fresh sentence after suspension
187
Scope of power of suspensio
188
Effect of suspension and remission on dismissal
RULES
189
Power to make rules
190
Power to make regulation
191
Publication of rules and regulations in Gazette
191A
Laying of rules and regulations before Parliament
192
Repealed
TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
193
Definition of British officer
194
Powers of British officer