108 Deserters and absentees surrendering to police. F1U.K.
(1)Where a person surrenders himself to a constable as being a person who is illegally absent from any of Her Majesty’s naval forces, the constable shall, unless that person surrenders himself at a police station, bring him to a police station.
(2)The officer of police in charge of a police station at which a person has surrendered himself as aforesaid, or to which a person who has so surrendered himself is brought, shall forthwith inquire into the case; and if it appears to that officer that the said person is illegally absent as aforesaid he may cause him to be delivered into naval custody without bringing him before a court of summary jurisdiction or may bring him before such a court.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 108 as read with s. 126 extended by Guyana Independence Act 1966 (c. 14), s. 5(2)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions