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Naval Discipline Act 1957

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118Application to certain civilians

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section where any body of Her Majesty's naval forces are on active service Parts I and II of this Act shall (so far as applicable) apply to the following persons, that is to say—

(a)any person employed in the service of that body of those forces;

(b)any person employed in the service of any portion or member of that body of those forces; or

(c)any person who accompanies that body of those forces or any portion thereof,

as they apply to persons subject to this Act,

(2)Without prejudice to the foregoing subsection, but subject to the provisions of this section, the following provisions of this Act, that is to say—

(a)sections fourteen, thirty-eight and thirty-nine;

(b)sections forty and forty-one, so far as they relate to the sections aforesaid;

(c)sections forty-two and forty-three; and

(d)Part II so far as it applies to an offence under any of the said sections,

shall apply to a person of any class described in the Third Schedule to this Act who is within the limits of the command of any officer commanding any of Her Majesty's naval forces outside the United Kingdom or any colony, as they apply to persons subject to this Act.

(3)The provisions of the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of the application of this Act to any person to whom it applies by virtue of this section.

(4)This section does not apply to any person to whom section one hundred and seventeen of this Act applies, or who is otherwise subject to this Act apart from this section or is subject to military or air-force law apart from section two hundred and nine of the Army Act, 1955, or the Air Force Act, 1955.

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