Section 4
Special powers to control civilian personnel employed in connection with the Armed Forces of the Union. Repealed
The Defence of India Act, 1962
About this Act
An Act to provide for special measures to ensure the public safety and interest, the defence of India and civil defence and for the trial of certain offences and for matters connected therewith.
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct by general or
special order that any persons who not being members of the Armed Forces of the Union are attached to,
or employed with, or following those Forces, shall be subject to naval, military or air force law, and
thereupon such persons shall be subject to discipline and liable to punishment for offences under the Navy
Act, 1957 (62 of 1957), the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) and the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), as the
case may be, as if they were included in such class of persons subject to any of those Acts as may be
specified in the notification or in the absence thereof, by an officer empowered by the Central
Government in this behalf.