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PART IIIProvisions relating to civilians and civil authorities

Powers of civil courts and authorities as to deserters and absentees

110Certificates of arrest or surrender

(1)Where an officer of police causes any person to be delivered into naval custody under section one hundred and eight of this Act without being brought before a court of summary jurisdiction, there shall be handed over with that person a certificate in the prescribed form signed by the officer of police, containing a statement of the fact, date, time and place of surrender and whether or not the said person was at the time of surrender wearing the uniform of any of Her Majesty's naval forces.

(2)Where a court of summary jurisdiction causes any person to be delivered into naval custody under section one hundred and nine of this Act, or any person is so delivered after having been committed under that section, there shall be handed over with him a certificate in the prescribed form, signed by a justice of the peace, containing—

(a)a statement of the fact, date, time and place of arrest or surrender, and whether or not the said person was. at the time of arrest or surrender, wearing the uniform of any of Her Majesty's naval forces ; and

(b)such particulars of the proceedings before the court as may be prescribed;

and for any such certificate there shall be payable to the clerk of the court, by such person as the Admiralty may direct, such fee (if any) as may be prescribed.

(3)In this section " prescribed " means prescribed by regulations made by the Admiralty by statutory instrument.