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Armed Forces Act 1971
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29Scandalous conduct by officers
(1)The following provision shall be substituted for section 64 of the Army Act 1955 (under which an officer who behaves in a scandalous manner unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman is to be cashiered):—
“64Scandalous conduct by officers.
Every officer subject to military law who behaves in a scandalous manner unbecoming the character of an officer shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to dismissal from Her Majesty's service with or without disgrace.”
(2)The provision set out in subsection (1) above shall also be substituted for section 64 of the Air Force Act 1955, but modified for that purpose by the substitution of " air-force law " for " military law ".
(3)Section 36 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 shall be amended so as to correspond with the said provision, that is to say, by substituting for the words " is guilty of cruelty or of any scandalous, fraudulent or other conduct " the words " behaves in a scandalous manner ".
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