C1Part II Discipline and Trial and Punishment of Air-Force Offences

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Misconduct in action and other offences arising out of air-force service

29F2 Offences by or in relation to sentries, persons on watch etc.

Any person subject to air-force law who—

a

while on guard duty and posted or ordered to patrol, or on watch, or under orders to regulate traffic by land, water or air, sleeps or, without having been regularly relieved, leaves any place where it is his duty to be, or

b

. . . F3 uses force against a member of Her Majesty’s forces, or of any forces co-operating therewith, who is on guard duty and posted or ordered to patrol, or on watch, or under orders to regulate traffic by land, water or air, or

c

by the threat of force compels any such person as is mentioned 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 years or any less punishment provided by this Act.