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Part II Offences in relation to courts-martial and civil authoritiesSection 57Table of ContentsContentMore ResourcesPrevious: ProvisionNext: ProvisionPlain ViewPrint Options
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This includes any insertions of whole new Parts, Chapters or provisions yet to be inserted into this Act. These effects are included in this view as they may be (but won’t necessarily be) relevant to the specific provision that you are viewing.Act continued by S.I. 2004/1496 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act continued by S.I. 2005/2021 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act continued by S.I. 2006/1910 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act continued by S.I. 2007/2123 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act continued by S.I. 2008/1780 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act continued (temp. until 1.9.2004) by S.I. 2003/1869 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act continued until 8.11.2009 by S.I. 2009/1752 art. 2 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act expires 8.11.2007 by 2006 c. 52 s. 382 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act power to amend conferred by 2006 c. 52 s. 381 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Act repealed by 2006 c. 52 Sch. 17 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):s. 74 74A substituted for s. 74 by S.I. 2008/1694 art. 4 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))s. 91A and cross-heading inserted by 2006 c. 52 Sch. 16 para. 23 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))s. 120ZA inserted by S.I. 2008/1694 art. 25 (This effect relates to the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19))Commencement Orders yet to be applied to the Air Force Act 1955:Commencement OrdersThis section lists the commencement orders yet to be applied to the whole Act. 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If you are viewing a prospective version or there is a prospective version available there may be commencement orders listed here that are relevant to the provision you are viewing.Commencement Orders bringing legislation that affects this Act into force:S.I. 2003/192 art. 2-7 commences (2000 c. 19)S.I. 2003/1900 art. 2(1) Sch. 1 art. 2(2) Sch. 2 commences (2003 c. 21)S.I. 2003/2268 art. 2 commences (2001 c. 19)S.I. 2003/3142 art. 2-4 commences (2002 c. 11 and 2003 c. 21)S.I. 2003/3142 art. 3(1) art. 3(2) 4(2) Sch. 1 2 commences (2003 c. 21)S.I. 2004/827 art. 2-4 commences (2003 c. 20)S.I. 2004/874 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 42)S.I. 2004/3033 art. 2-4 commences (2003 c. 44)S.I. 2005/579 art. 2 3 commences (2004 c. 28)S.I. 2005/910 art. 3 commences (2003 c. 39)S.I. 2005/2122 art. 2 amendment to earlier commencing SI 2005/950 Sch. 2 para. 23S.I. 2005/2861 art. 2 commences (2001 c. 19)S.I. 2005/3175 art. 2 3 commences (2004 c. 33)S.I. 2006/235 art. 2 commences (2001 c. 19)S.I. 2006/378 art. 2-7 Sch. commences (2005 c. 15)S.I. 2006/2309 art. 2 commences (2001 c. 19)S.I. 2006/2885 art. 2 commences (1999 c. 23)S.I. 2007/662 art. 2 commences (2001 c. 19)S.I. 2007/1442 art. 2 commences (2006 c. 52)S.I. 2007/2913 art. 2 3 commences (2006 c. 52)S.I. 2007/3001 art. 2 commences (2007 c. 21)S.I. 2007/3434 art. 2 commences (2001 c. 19)S.I. 2008/1325 art. 2 commences (2005 c. 15)S.I. 2008/1653 art. 2 commences (2007 c. 15)S.I. 2008/1900 art. 2 commences (2007 c. 12)S.I. 2009/812 art. 3 commences (2006 c. 52)S.I. 2009/1059 Order transitional provisions for effects of commencing SI 2009/812S.I. 2009/1167 art. 3 4 commences (2006 c. 52)S.I. 2009/1604 art. 2 commences (2005 c. 4)S.I. 2010/145 art. 2 Sch. commences (2009 c. 25)S.I. 2010/816 art. 2-6 Sch. commences (2009 c. 25)S.S.I. 2004/138 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 42)S.R. 2003/53 art. 4 5 6 7 commences (2000 c. 4)S.R. 2005/109 art. 2 Sch. commences (2002 c. 26)57 Offences in relation to courts-martial.E+W+S+N.I.(1)Any person subject to air-force law who—
(a)having been duly summoned or ordered to attend as a witness before a court-martial, fails to comply with the summons or order, or
(b)refuses to swear an oath when duly required by a court-martial to do so, or
(c)refuses to produce any [F1document or other thing which is in his custody or under his control and] which a court-martial has lawfully required him to produce, or
(d)when a witness, refuses to answer any question which a court-martial has lawfully required him to answer, or
(e)wilfully insults any person, being a member of a court-martial or a witness or any other person whose duty it is to attend on or before the court, while that person is acting as a member thereof or is so attending, or wilfully insults any such person as aforesaid while that person is going to or returning from the proceedings of the court, or
(f)wilfully interrupts the proceedings of a court-martial or otherwise misbehaves before the court,
shall, on conviction by a court-martial, other than the court in relation to which the offence was committed, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act.
(2)Notwithstanding anything in the last foregoing subsection, where an offence against F2that subsection is committed in relation to any court-martial held in pursuance of this Act that court, if of opinion that it is expedient that the offender should be dealt with summarily by the court instead of being brought to trial before another court-martial, may by order under the hand of the president [F3sentence the offender—
(a)if he is an officer, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty-one days, or to a fine not exceeding the amount of his pay for twenty-eight days F4. . .,
(b)in any other case, to imprisonment or detention for such a term as aforesaid, or to such a fine as aforesaid.]
[F5(2A)If the offender has attained seventeen years of age but is under [F6eighteen] years of age, subsection (2) above shall have effect in relation to him as if the power to impose a sentence of imprisonment were a power to make an order under section 71AA below.]
[F7(2B)For the purposes of subsection (2) above, a day’s pay shall be taken to be–
(a)subject to paragraph (b) below, the gross pay which is, or would apart from any forfeiture be, issuable to the offender in respect of the day on which the order is made;
(b)if the offender is a special member of a reserve force, the gross pay which would have been issuable to him in respect of that day if he had been an ordinary member of that reserve force of the same rank.
(2C)In subsection (2B)(b) above “special member” and “ordinary member” have the same meaning as in the Reserve Forces Act 1996.]
(3)References in paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (1) of this section to a court-martial shall include references to a court-martial [F8or disciplinary court] held in pursuance of [F9the M1Naval Discipline Act 1957][F10and to a court-martial held in pursuance of] the M2Army Act 1955, or the law of any colony.
[F11(4)References in paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (1) of this section to a court-martial or to a member of a court-martial include references to a judicial officer or a person appointed under section 75L of the Army Act 1955 or section 47M of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 and, in relation to an offence committed in relation to a judicial officer or a person so appointed, that subsection shall have effect as if the words “other than the court in relation to which the offence was committed” were omitted.
(5)In relation to an offence committed in relation to a judicial officer, subsection (2) of this section shall have effect as if—
(a)the references to a court-martial held in pursuance of this Act were references to the judicial officer,
(b)for “another court-martial” there were substituted “a court-martial”, and
(c)the words “under the hand of the president” were omitted.]
[F12(6)References in paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (1) of this section to a court-martial include references to the summary appeal court, the court established by section 83ZA of the Army Act 1955 or the court established by section 52FF of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 and, in relation to an offence committed in relation to any of those courts that subsection shall have effect as if the words “other than the court in relation to which the offence was committed” were omitted.
(7)In relation to an offence committed in relation to the summary appeal court, subsection (2) of this section shall have effect as if—
(a)the reference to a court-martial held in pursuance of this Act were a reference to the summary appeal court,
(c)for “the president” there were substituted “the judge advocate”.]
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