Section 8:
Minor offences and punishment.
(1) A District Magistrate or a Commandant, or
subject to the control of the Commandant, an Assistant Commandant, or subject to the control
of the Commandant an officer not below the rank of a Jamadar commanding a separate
detachment or an outpost or in temporary command at the headquarters of a District during the
absence of the District Magistrate, Commandant and Assistant Commandant, may, without a
formal trial, award to any rifleman below the rank of a Naik, who is subject to his authority, any
of the following punishments for the commission of any petty offence against discipline, which
is not otherwise provided for in this Act, or which is not of a sufficiently serious nature to call
for prosecution before a criminal Court, that is to say,—
(a) imprisonment in the Quarter Guard, or such other place as may be considered
suitable, for a term which may extend to twenty-eight days when the order is passed by a
District Magistrate or a Commandant 5
or an Assistant Commandant or to seven days
when it is passed by any other officer;
(b) punishment drill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty, not exceeding twenty-eight days in
duration, with or without confinement to lines;
(c) forfeiture of pay and allowances for a period not exceeding twenty -eight days.
(2) Any of the punishments specified in sub-section (1) may be awarded separately or in
combination with any one or more of the others, but no award or awards including imprisonment and confinement to lines shall exceed twenty-eight consecutive days.
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Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, every non-combatant shall be deemed to be below
the rank of a naik.
Notes:
5. Ins. by Act 48 of 1958, s. 2.
6. Ins. by Act 34 of 1951, s. 4.