LawgistThe Air Force Act
77Field punishment
(1) Where any person subject to this Act and under the rank of warrant officer commits any offence on active service, shall be lawful for a court-martial to award for that offence any such punishment as is prescribed as a field punishment.
(2) Field punishment shall be of the character of personal restraint or of hard labour but shall not be of a nature to cause injury to life or limb and shall not include flogging.
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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
