• OFFENCES

  • 15
     Correspondence, etc., with offenders
  • 16
     Deserting post and neglect of duty
  • 17
     Mutiny
  • 18
     Persons on board ship or aircraft seducing Coast Guard personnel from allegiance
  • 19
     Striking or threatening superior officers
  • 20
     Disobedience to superior officer
  • 21
     Ill-treating subordinates
  • 22
     Quarrelling, fighting and disorderly behaviour
  • 23
     Certain forms of disgraceful conduct
  • 24
     Drunkenness
  • 25
     Desertion and aiding desertion
  • 26
     Breaking out of ship and absence without leave
  • 27
     Losing ship or aircraft
  • 28
     Dangerous unauthorised flying
  • 29
     Inaccurate certificate
  • 30
     Low flying and annoyance by flying
  • 31
     Disobedience of lawful command of captain of an aircraft
  • 32
     False accusations
  • 33
     Falsifying official documents and false declarations
  • 34
     Offences in respect of property
  • 35
     Damage to property
  • 36
     Taking unauthorised goods on board
  • 37
     Offences in respect of papers relating to vessel, craft or aircraft taken into custody
  • 38
     Offences in respect of vessel, craft or aircraft taken into custody
  • 39
     Unlawful taking of ransom
  • 40
     Offences relating to Coast Guard Courts
  • 41
     Escape from custody
  • 42
     Violation of the Act, rules and orders
  • 43
     False answers on enrolment
  • 44
     Offences against good order and discipline
  • 45
     Attempt
  • 46
     Abetment of offences that have been committed
  • 47
     Abetment of offence punishable with death and not committed
  • 48
     Abetment of offences punishable with imprisonment and not committed
  • 49
     Civil offences
  • 50
     Civil offences not triable by a Coast Guard Court
  • 51
     Period of limitation for trial of offences under the Act
  • 52
     Trial, etc., of a person who ceases to be subject to the Act
  • PUNISHMENTS

  • 53
     Punishments awardable by Coast Guard Courts
  • 54
     Alternative punishments awardable by Coast Guard Courts
  • 55
     Combination of punishments
  • 56
     Punishments otherwise than by Coast Guard Courts
  • 57
     Minor punishments
  • 57A
     Punishment for officers below the rank of Commandant
  • 58
     Provisions as to award of punishments
  • ARREST AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL

  • 59
     Custody of offenders
  • 60
     Duty of Commanding Officer in regard to detention
  • 61
     Arrest by civil authorities
  • 62
     Capture of deserters
  • 63
     Coast Guard police officers
  • COAST GUARD COURTS

  • 64
     Power to convene a Coast Guard Court
  • 65
     Composition of Coast Guard Courts
  • 66
     Dissolution of a Coast Guard Court
  • 67
     Powers of a Coast Guard Court
  • 68
     Prohibition of second trial
  • 69
     Application of Act during term of sentence
  • 70
     Place of trial
  • 71
     Choice between criminal court and Coast Guard Court
  • 72
     Power of criminal court to require delivery of an offender
  • PROCEDURE OF COAST GUARD COURTS

  • 73
     Law Officer
  • 74
     Challenges
  • 75
     Oaths of member, Law Officer and witness
  • 76
     Voting by members
  • 77
     General rule as to evidence
  • 78
     Judicial notice
  • 79
     Summoning of witnesses
  • 80
     Documents exempted from production
  • 81
     Commissions for examination of witnesses
  • 82
     Examination of a witness on commission
  • 83
     Alternative findings
  • 84
     Presumption as to signatures
  • 85
     Enrolment paper
  • 86
     Presumption as to certain documents
  • 87
     Evidence of previous convictions and general character
  • 88
     Lunacy of accused
  • 89
     Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial
  • 90
     Transmission to Central Government of orders under section 89
  • 91
     Release of lunatic accused
  • 92
     Delivery of lunatic accused to relatives
  • 93
     Order for custody and disposal of property pending trial
  • 94
     Order for disposal of property regarding which offence is committed
  • 95
     Powers of Coast Guard Court in relation to proceedings under this Act
  • EXECUTION AND SUSPENSION OF SENTENCES

  • 96
     Form of sentence of death
  • 97
     Interim custody until execution of sentence of death
  • 98
     Execution of sentence of death
  • 99
     Commencement of sentence of imprisonment or detention
  • 100
     Execution of sentence of imprisonment
  • 101
     Temporary custody of offender
  • 102
     Conveyance of prisoner from place to place
  • 103
     Communication of certain orders to prison officers
  • 104
     Execution of Sentence of fine
  • 105
     Informality or error in the order or warrant
  • 106
     Imprisonment or detention of offender already under sentence
  • 107
     Suspension of sentence of imprisonment or detention
  • 108
     Release on suspension
  • 109
     Computation of period of suspension
  • 110
     Order after suspension
  • 111
     Reconsideration of case after suspension
  • 112
     Fresh sentence after suspension
  • 113
     Scope of power of suspension
  • 114
     Effect of suspension and remission on dismissal
  • CHIEF LAW OFFICER AND LAW OFFICERS

  • 115
     Appointment of Chief Law Officer and Law Officers
  • 116
     Functions of Chief Law Officer
  • JUDICIAL REVIEW OF PROCEEDINGS OF COAST GUARD COURTS

  • 117
     Judicial review by the Chief Law Officer
  • 118
     Consideration by the Director-General
  • MODIFICATION OF FINDINGS AND SENTENCES, PARDONS, COMMUTATION AND REMISSION OF SENTENCES

  • 119
     Petitions to Central Government or Director-General against findings and sentences
  • 120
     Powers of Central Government and Director-General in respect of findings and sentences
  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 121
     Powers and duties conferrable and imposable on members of the Coast Guard
  • 122
     Protection for acts of members of the Coast Guard
  • 123
     Power to make rules