C1C2 Part II Discipline and Trial and Punishment of Military Offences
Part II applied (1.6.1996 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by Armed Forces Act 1991 (c. 62, SIF 7:1), ss. 18(9)(a), 20(10)(a); S.I. 1996/1173, art. 2
Misconduct in action and other offences arising out of military service
29F2 Offences by or in relation to sentries, persons on watch, etc.
Any person subject to military law who—
a
while on guard duty and posted or ordered to patrol, or on watch, or under orders to regulate trafficby land, water or air, sleeps or, without having been regularly relieved, leaves any place where it is hisduty to be, or
b
F3 uses force against a member of Her Majesty’s forces, or of any forcesco-operating therewith, who is on guard duty and posted or ordered to patrol, or on watch, or under ordersto regulate traffic by land, water or air, or
c
by the threat of force compels any such person as is mentioned, leaves any place where it is his dutyto be, or
d
in paragraph (b) above to let him or any other person pass,
shall be liable, on conviction by court-martial, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two yearsor any less punishment provided by this Act.
Part II extended by Reserve Forces Act 1980 (c. 9), s. 142