PART IIDiscipline and Trial and Punishment of Air-Force Offences

Offences relating to billeting and requisitioning of vehicles

47Billeting offences

Any person subject to air-force law who—

(a)

knowing that no billeting requisition is in force under Part IV of this Act authorising him to demand any billets or that he is otherwise not authorised to demand them, obtains those billets or orders or procures another person to obtain them ;

(b)

takes or agrees to take, or demands, from a person on whom he or any other person or any vehicle is or is to be billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition under Part IV of this Act any money or thing as consideration for not requiring, or ceasing to require, accommodation for himself or the said other person or standing room for the vehicle ; or

(c)

commits any offence against the person or property of the occupier of premises in which he is billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition under Part IV of this Act or of any other person being in those premises, or against any other property in those premises, or wilfully or by wilful neglect damages those premises or any such property as aforesaid,

shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act.