Introductory Text
PART I Articles of war
Public worship
1.Public worship to be performed
Misconduct in action and assistance to enemy
2.Misconduct in action by persons in command
3.Misconduct in action by other officers and men
4.Obstruction of operations
5.Corresponding with, supplying or serving with the enemy
Neglect of duty
6.Sleeping on watch or abandoning post
7.Neglect of duty
Mutiny
8.Definition of " mutiny "
9.Offences of mutiny
10.Failure to suppress mutiny
Insubordination and similar offences
11.Striking superior officer
12.Disobedience or threatening superior officer
13.Fighting and quarrelling
14.Obstruction of provost officers
Desertion and absence without leave
15.Definition of " desertion "
16.Offences of desertion
17.Absence without leave, etc.
18.Failure to report deserters and absentees
Navigation and flying offences
19.Loss or hazarding of ship or aircraft
20.Dangerous flying, etc.
21.Low flying
22.Annoyance by flying
Prize offences
23.Prize offences by commanding officers
24.Other prize offences
Other offences in respect of ships and aircraft
25.Inaccurate certification
26.Improper carriage of goods
Malingering and drunkenness
27.Malingering
28.Drunkenness
Offences relating to property
29.Misapplication and destruction of public and service property
30.Loss and waste of public and service property
31.Offences relating to issues and decorations
Offences relating to billeting and requisitioning of vehicles, etc.
32.Billeting offences
33.Offences in relation to requisitioning of vehicles, etc.
Miscellaneous offences
34.Unauthorised disclosure of information
35.Falsification of documents
36.Cruelty or scandalous conduct by officers
37.Disgraceful conduct
38.Offences in relation to courts-martial
39.Conduct to the prejudice of naval discipline
Attempts and aiding and abetting
40.Attempt to commit naval offence
41.Aiding and abetting of naval offence
Civil offences
42.Civil offences
Punishments
43.Scale of punishments
44.Supplementary provisions as to punishments
PART II Trial and punishment of offences
Arrest
45.Duty to bring offenders to justice and powers of arrest
46.Provisions for avoiding delay after arrest
47.Evidence of arrest or surrender
Jurisdiction
48.Jurisdiction of courts-martial
49.Summary trial
50.Disciplinary courts
51.Jurisdiction to try offenders no longer subject to this Act
52.Limitation of time for trial
Constitution of courts-martial
53.Ordering of courts-martial
54.Composition of courts-martial
55.Officials of courts-martial
56.Place and time of sittings of courts-martial
57.Quorum
Proceedings of courts-martial
58.General Orders as to procedure of courts-martial
59.Challenge by accused
60.Administration of oaths
61.Courts-martial to sit in open court
62.Finding and sentence
63.Special finding of insane at time of trial or offence
64.Summoning of witnesses
65.Contempt of court-martial by civilians
66.Record of proceedings of courts-martial
Power to convict of mitigated or alternative offence
67.Power to convict of mitigated offence
68.Power to convict of alternative offence
69.Power to convict of attempt notwithstanding proof of completed offence
Review of finding and sentence
70.Review by Admiralty of finding and sentence
71.Power to quash or alter findings
72.Power to remit or alter sentences
73.Saving for functions of Judge Advocate of Her Majesty's Fleet
Special powers of Admiralty
74.Power to dispense with trial of persons confessing to desertion
75.Forfeiture of pay and effects of certain absentees
76.Restitution or compensation on conviction of larceny, etc.
77.Effect of appeal against conviction on order for restitution or compensation
Execution of sentence of death
78.Confirmation and authority for execution
79.Regulations as to execution
80.Execution in civil prison in the United Kingdom
Service of sentence of imprisonment or detention
81.Place of imprisonment or detention
82.Naval Detention Quarters Rules
83.Service of sentence in civil prison in the United Kingdom
84.Removal of certain prisoners
Commencement and duration of sentences of imprisonment and detention
85.Commencement of sentences
86.Consecutive sentences
87.Periods of compassionate release
88.Periods of unlawful absence
89.Limitation of total period of sentences of detention
Suspension and reconsideration of sentences of imprisonment and detention
90.Suspension of sentences
91.Committal or re-committal of persons under suspended sentence
92.Reconsideration of sentences
PART III Provisions relating to civilians and civil authorities
Offences by civilians triable by court-martial
93.Spying in ships or in naval establishments abroad
94.Seduction from duty in ships or in naval establishments abroad
95.Arrest and jurisdiction
Offences punishable by civil courts
96.False pretence of desertion or absence without leave
97.Procuring or assisting desertion or absence without leave
98.Unlawful purchase of naval property
99.Illegal dealings in official documents
100.Jurisdiction and application of summary fines
Process and execution in certain civil proceedings
101.Service of proceedings for maintenance, etc.
102.Exemption of naval property from execution
Arrest and detention of offenders by civil authorities
103.Arrest under warrants of naval authorities
104.Arrest of persons unlawfully at large
105.Arrest of deserters and absentees
106.Arrest of persons suspected of offences punishable by civil courts
107.Duties of governors of civil prisons, etc.
Powers of civil courts and authorities as to deserters and absentees
108.Deserters and absentees surrendering to police
109.Proceedings before summary courts
110.Certificates of arrest or surrender
PART IV Miscellaneous and General
Persons subject to this Act
111.Naval forces, volunteers and trainees
112.Marines
113.Attached military and air forces
114.Commonwealth forces
115.Colonial naval forces
116.Application to deserters, etc., from commonwealth and colonial forces
117.Application to passengers in H.M. ships
118.Application to certain civilians
119.Application to sentenced offenders, etc.
Attachment and powers of command
120.Attachment to military or air forces
121.Attachment to commonwealth and other forces
122.Powers of command of members of co-operating military or air forces
Application to particular countries and territories
123.Scotland
124.Northern Ireland
125.Channel Islands and Isle of Man
126.Colonies
127.Protectorates, protected states, trust territories and federated territories
128.Republic of Ireland
Miscellaneous provisions
129.Jurisdiction of civil courts
130.Redress of complaints
131.Ships under convoy
Interpretation
132.Definitions of Her Majesty's ships, forces, etc.
133.Definitions of officer, rating and superior officer
134.Definition of active service
135.General Interpretation
Supplemental
136.Minor amendments
137.Repeals and transitional provisions
138.Savings
139.Short title and commencement
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Application of Act to Marine Forces
1.For paragraph (k) of subsection (1) of section forty-three of...
2.Subsection (7) of section forty-four of this Act shall not...
3.Notwithstanding anything in section two hundred and one of the...
4.In subsection (2) of section fifty-two of this Act, for...
SECOND SCHEDULE
Application of Act to attached Military and Air Forces
1.Throughout Part I of this Act, for any reference to...
2.For paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section forty-three of...
3.For paragraph (k) of the said subsection (1) there shall...
4.Paragraph (f) of the said subsection (1) and subsection (6)...
5.Subsection (7) of section forty-four of this Act shall not...
6.Notwithstanding anything in section two hundred and one of the...
7.In subsection (1) of section fifty, the reference to an...
8.In relation to the trial of a member of the...
9.In subsection (2) of section fifty-two of this Act, for...
10.Any reference in this Act to the uniform of any...
11.In sections seventy to seventy-two of this Act, in their...
THIRD SCHEDULE
Civilians subject to this Act outside Her Majesty's dominions
1.Persons serving Her Majesty, or otherwise employed, in such capacities...
2.Persons who are employed by, or in the service of,...
3.Persons belonging to or employed by any other organisation so...
4.Persons who, for the purposes of their profession or employment,...
5.Persons forming part of the family of members of any...
6.Persons forming part of the family of persons falling within...
7.Persons employed by members of any of Her Majesty's naval,...
8.Persons employed by persons falling within paragraphs 1 to 6...
9.Persons forming part of the family of persons falling within...
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Application of Act to Certain Civilians
1.In the application of any enactment contained in Part I...
2.In section thirty-nine of this Act, in its application to...
3.Any person found committing an offence for which he is...
4.In relation to a person liable to be tried as...
FIFTH SCHEDULE
Minor Amendments
SIXTH SCHEDULE
Enactments Repealed
SEVENTH SCHEDULE
Transitional Provisions
1.In relation to an offence against any section in Part...
2.Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 1 of this Schedule, where any...
3.Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 1 of this schedule, the provisions...
4.Where after the date of the commencement of this Act...
5.Any commission issued before the date of commencement of this...
6.Any Order in Council, general orders or regulations made under...
7.In so far as general orders under subsection (4) of...