C1Part V General Provisions

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Offences relating to military matters punishable by civil courts

196 Illegal dealings in documents relating to pay, pensions, mobilisation, etc.

1

Any person who—

a

as a pledge or a security for a debt, or

b

with a view to obtaining payment from the person entitled thereto of a debt due either to himself orto any other person,

receives, detains or has in his possession any official document issued in connection with the paymentto any person of any pay, pension, allowance, gratuity or other payment payable in respect of his or anyother person’s military service shall be guilty of an offence against this section.

2

Any person who has in his possession without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof shall lieon him) any such document as aforesaid, or any official document issued in connection with the mobilisationor demobilisation of any of Her Majesty’s military forces or any member thereof, shall be guilty of anoffence against this section.

3

Any person guilty of an offence against this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a finenot exceeding F2level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such a fine and such imprisonment.

4

For the purposes of this section a document shall be deemed to be in the possession of a person if hehas it under his control and whether he has it for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit ofanother.

5

This section shall have effect in the United Kingdom and in any colony.