In subsection (1) of section 129 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (which provides that a person subject to as that Act who is acquitted or convicted of an offence on trial thereunder shall not be tried subsequently by a civil court the same offence) and subsection (2) of that section (Which, contains provision whereby the trial under that Act of a person subject thereto is barred where he has been acquitted or convicted by a civil court for the same offence) for the words “for the same offence” there shall be substituted the words “ for tne same, or substantially the same, offence ”.

The said subsection (2) shall be extended so that the reference to a civil court in the said provision contained therein shall have effect as a reference to such a court in any country, and accordingly after the words “civil court”, in the first place where they occur in that subsection, there shall be inserted the words “ wherever situated ”.