“airman” (except in Parts I and IV of this Act) does not include a warrant officer or a non-commissioned officer;

“air signal” means any message, signal or indication given, by any means whatsoever, for the guidance of aircraft or a particular aircraft;

“appropriate superior authority” F2means a person who may act as an appropriate superior authority by virtue of subsection (2) of section eighty-two of this Act;

F3. . .

“before the enemy”, in relation to a person, means that he is in action against the enemy or about to go into action against the enemy, or is under attack or threat of imminent attack by the enemy;

“civil court” means a court of ordinary criminal jurisdiction but does not, except where otherwise expressly provided, include any such court outside Her Majesty’s dominions;

“civil offence” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of section seventy of this Act;

“commanding officer” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section eighty-two of this Act;

F4“Commonwealth force” means any of the naval, military or air forces of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, F5South Africa,India, F6Pakistan,Ceylon, Ghana, Malaysia, the Republic of Cyprus, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar, Malawi, Zambia, Malta, The Gambia, Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho, Singapore, Barbados, Mauritius, Swaziland, Tonga, Fiji, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Grenada, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Kirbati, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Nauru, the New Hebrides, Zimbabwe, Belize or Antigua and Barbuda F7or Saint Christopher and NevisF8or Brunei or MaldivesF9or Namibia F10or Cameroon or Mozambique

“constable” includes any person (whether within or outside the United Kingdom) having powers corresponding with those of a constable F11but does not include a provost officer or a person exercising authority under or on behalf of a provost officer;

“corps” means any such body of the regular air force as may from time to time be declared by order of Her Majesty to be a corps for the purposes of this Act;

“corresponding civil offence” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of section seventy of this Act;

“corresponding rank”, in relation to any rank or rating of any of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces, means such rank or rating of any other of those forces as may be declared by Queen’s Regulations to correspond therewith;

F12“court administration officer” and “the court administration officer” have the meanings assigned to them by section 84A of this Act;

“court-martial”, except where it is otherwise expressly provided, means a court-martial under this Act;

“damage” includes destruction, and references to damaging shall be construed accordingly;

“decoration” includes medal, medal ribbon, clasp and good-conduct badge;

“desertion” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (2) of section thirty-seven of this Act;

“enemy” includes all persons engaged in armed operations against any of Her Majesty’s forces F13or any forces co-operating therewith, and also includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters and pirates;

“Governor” means, in relation to any colony, the officer, however styled, who is for the time being administering the government of the colony F14, but where two or more colonies or the parts of any colony are under local governments and also under a central government, references to the Governor shall be construed as references to the officer, however styled, who is for the time being administering the central government;

F15“handles” has the same meaning as in the M1Theft Act 1968;

“Her Majesty’s air forces”, “Her Majesty’s military forces” or “Her Majesty’s naval forces”F16, except where otherwise expressly provided, does not include any Commonwealth force F17and references to “Her Majesty’s forces”, except in sections F18 177, shall be construed accordingly;

F19“the judge advocate”, in relation to a court-martial, has the meaning assigned to it by section 84B(1) of this Act;

F20“judicial officer” means a person appointed under section 75L of this Act;

except where the context otherwise requires “oath” includes affirmation, and references to swearing shall be construed accordingly;

“property” includes real property in England or Wales or Northern Ireland, heritable property in Scotland, and property outside the United Kingdom of the nature of real property;

F21“the prosecuting authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 83A(1) of this Act;

“provost officer” means a provost marshal or officer appointed to exercise the functions conferred by or under this Act on provost officers and includes a naval provost marshal, an assistant to a naval provost marshal, and an officer appointed to exercise functions conferred by or under the M2Army Act 1955, and corresponding with those of a provost officer under this Act;

“public property” means any property belonging to any department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or the Government of Northern Ireland or held for the purposes of any such department;

“Queen’s Regulations” means the Queen’s Regulations for the Royal Air Force;

“regular air force” means all of Her Majesty’s air forces other than the air force reserve and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, and other than forces raised under the law of a colony, so however that an officer who is retired within the meaning of any order under section two of the M3Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917, shall not be treated for the purposes of this Act as a member of the regular air force save in so far as is expressly provided by this Act;

F22“the relevant time” in relation to a person arrested under section 74 of this Act, means the time of the arrest;

F23“the Royal Air Force Police” includes the Provost Marshal of the Royal Air Force and any officer appointed to exercise the functions conferred by or under this Act on provost officers;

F24. . .

“service”, when used adjectivally, means belonging to or connected with Her Majesty’s air forces or any part of Her Majesty’s air forces;

F25“service l aw” means air-force law, military law or the M4Naval Discipline Act 1957;