Act Number: 45

Act Name: The Air Force Act, 1950

Year: 1950

Enactment Date: 1950-05-18

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the government of the Air Force.

Ministry: Ministry of Defence

Department: Department of Military Affairs

Section 72: Civil offences not triable by court-martial.
    A person subject to this Act who commits an offence of murder against a person not subject to military, naval or air force law, or of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against such a person or of rape in relation to such a person, shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall not be tried by a court-martial, unless he commits any of the said offences
         (a) while on active service, or
         (b) at any place outside India, or
         (c) at a frontier post specified by the said Government by notification in this behalf.
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Notes:
1. The Explanation omitted by Act 13 of 1975, s. 2 (w.e.f. 25-1-1975).
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