Section 113.
1Throughout Part I of this Act, for any reference to dismissal with disgrace from Her Majesty's service there shall be substituted a reference—
(a)in the case of an officer, to cashiering;
(b)in any other case, to discharge with ignominy from Her Majesty's service.
2For paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section forty-three of this Act, there shall be substituted the following paragraph :—
“(g)forfeiture, in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Admiralty, of seniority of rank;”
and for the purpose of this paragraph "seniority of rank", in relation to an officer of the regular forces, means seniority of rank either in the army or in the corps to which the offender belongs, or in both.
3For paragraph (k) of the said subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph :—
“(k)reduction to the ranks or any less reduction in rank;”.
4Paragraph (f) of the said subsection (1) and subsection (6) of section forty-four of this Act shall not apply.
5Subsection (7) of section forty-four of this Act shall not apply, and for any other reference in that section to disrating there shall be substituted a reference to reduction to the ranks.
6Notwithstanding anything in section two hundred and one of the Army Act, 1955, or the Air Force Act, 1955, a sentence of reduction to the ranks or any less reduction in rank may be awarded in the case of an offender tried under section forty-nine of this Act.
7In subsection (1) of section fifty, the reference to an officer of Her Majesty's naval forces below the rank of commander shall be construed as a reference to an officer of the regular forces or the regular air force of corresponding rank; and in relation to the trial of such an officer subsection (3) of that section shall have effect as if the reference to officers of Her Majesty's naval forces included a reference to officers of the regular forces or of the regular air force, as the case may be.
8In relation to the trial of a member of the regular forces or of the regular air force, section fifty-four shall have effect:—
(a)as if the officers described in subsection (1) included officers of those forces or of that force, as the case may be ;
(b)as if any other reference in that section to a specified naval rank included a reference to the corresponding military or air-force rank.
9In subsection (2) of section fifty-two of this Act, for the words " after he ceased to be subject thereto " there shall be substituted the words " next after the earliest date on which he is no longer subject to service law ".
10Any reference in this Act to the uniform of any of Her Majesty's naval forces, or to illegal absence from any of those forces, shall be construed as a reference to the uniform of, or to illegal absence from, any of the regular forces, or the regular air force, as the case may be.
11In sections seventy to seventy-two of this Act, in their application to any finding or sentence made or awarded on summary trial under section forty-nine of this Act, and in section ninety-two of this Act, any reference to the Admiralty shall be construed—
(a)in relation to a member of the regular forces, as a reference to the Admiralty or the Army Council;
(b)in relation to a member of the regular air force, as a reference to the Admiralty or the Air Council.