Naval Discipline Act 1957 (repealed)

[F143 Scale of punishments, and supplementary provisions.F12U.K.

(1)The punishments which may be awarded to persons convicted of offences under this Part of this Act are, subject to the following provisions of this section [F2and section 43A below], as follows:—

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(b)imprisonment,

[F4(bb)detention by virtue of a custodial order made under section 43AA of this Act;]

[F5(bc)order that the convicted person be disqualified from working with children]

(c)dismissal with disgrace from Her Majesty’s service,

(d)dismissal from Her Majesty’s service,

(e)detention for a term not exceeding two years,

(f)forfeiture of seniority for a specified term or otherwise,

(g)dismissal from the ship or naval establishment to which the offender belongs,

(h)disrating,

(i)fine,

(j)severe reprimand,

(k)reprimand,

(l)in the case of an offence which has occasioned any expense, [F6personal injury], loss or damage, stoppages, that is to say, the recovery, by deductions from the offender’s pay, of a specified sum by way of compensation for the expense, [F6personal injury] loss or damage, and

(m)such minor punishments as may from time to time be authorised by the Defence Council;

and references in this Act to any punishment authorised by this Act are, subject to the limitation imposed in any particular case by the addition of the word “less”, references to any one or more of the said punishments.

(2)Subsection (1) above shall have effect—

(a)in relation to a convicted person who is an officer, with the omission of paragraphs (e), (h) and (m),

(b)in relation to a convicted person who is a warrant officer, with the omission of paragraphs (f), (g) and (m), and

(c)in relation to a convicted person who is a rating below the rate of warrant officer with the omission of paragraphs (f) and (g) and, if he is below the rate of leading seaman, of paragraphs (h), (j) and (k) also.

(3)A person [F8who, otherwise than under section 38(3) of this Act, is] sentenced under this Act to imprisonment shall also be sentenced either to dismissal with disgrace from Her Majesty’s service or to dismissal from Her Majesty’s service:

(4)A rating of the rate of leading seaman or above [F8who, otherwise than under section 38(3) of this Act, is] sentenced under this Act to imprisonment, to dismissal from Her Majesty’s service (whether or not with disgrace), or to detention, shall also be sentenced to disrating:

(5)A sentence of disrating awarded in compliance with subsection (4) above, or deemed to have been awarded by virtue of the proviso to that subsection, shall be one reducing the offender to such rate as may be prescribed in relation to persons of the class to which he belongs by regulations made by the Defence Council; and any other sentence of disrating under this Act may reduce the offender to any rate not lower than that so prescribed.

(6)The amount of a fine that may be awarded under this Act by way of punishment for an offence, except in the case of an offence under section 42 thereof, shall not exceed the amount of the offender’s pay for twenty-eight days or, where the offence was committed on active service, fifty-six days; and in the said excepted case—

(a)the amount of a fine that may be so awarded by a court-martial—

(i)where the civil offence constituting the offence under that section is punishable by a civil court in England only on summary conviction, and is so punishable by a fine, shall not exceed the maximum amount of that fine, and

(ii)where the said civil offence is punishable by a civil court in England on indictment (whether or not it is also punishable on summary conviction) by a fine, shall not exceed the maximum amount of that fine;

(b)the amount of a fine that may be so awarded where the offence is tried summarily—

(i)in any case shall not exceed the amount of the offender’s pay for twenty-eight days or, where the civil offence constituting the offence was committed on active service, fifty-six days, and

(ii)where the said civil offence is punishable by a civil court in England only on summary conviction, and is so punishable by a fine of a maximum amount less than the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) above, shall not exceed that maximum, and

(iii)where the said civil offence is punishable by a civil court in England on indictment by a fine of a maximum amount less than the amount so mentioned (whether or not it is also punishable on summary conviction) shall not exceed that maximum;

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[F10(6A)For the purposes of subsection (6) 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 punishment is awarded;

(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.

(6B)In subsection (6A)(b) above “special member” and “ordinary member” have the same meaning as in the Reserve Forces Act 1996.]

[F11(7)Unless the Secretary of State by order provides that this subsection shall no longer apply, the stoppages awarded in respect of any offence occasioning personal injury of which a person is convicted or any other such offence which is taken into consideration in determining sentence shall not exceed such sum as is for the time being specified by an order made by the Secretary of State.

F11(8)The power to make an order under subsection (7) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]]