Examples of Naval Discipline Act in a sentence
The Armed Forces Act 2006 replaced the single Service Discipline Acts (the Naval Discipline Act 1957, the Army Act 1955 and the Air Force Act 1955) with a single system of service law that applies to the personnel of all three services.
However, such acts continued to constitute offences under the Army and Air Force Acts 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (Section 1(5) of the 1967 Act).
The Armed Forces Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”) came into effect on 1 April 1997 and amended, inter alia, the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (references below to “the 1957 Act” are to that Act as amended).
Section 21(5), anticipating article 1 of the Sixth Protocol to the Convention (to which the UK had not acceded when the Act was passed) provided that the death penalty, which could still be imposed under the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957, should be replaced by a liability to life imprisonment or any lesser punishment authorised by those Acts.
Sixteenth Report of Session 2005-06, Proposal for a Draft Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order 2006, HL Paper 154, HC 1022; Twenty-ninth Report of Session 2005-06, Draft Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order 2006, HL Paper 248, HC 1627; Ninth Report of Session 2003-04, Naval Discipline Act 1957 (Remedial) Order 2004, HL Paper 59, HC 477.
For the purposes of subsection (1), the term unfit includes temporarily unfit.Compare: 1950 No 39 s 38(a)–(c); 1950 No 40 s 38(a)–(c); Army Act 1955 s 42 (UK); Air Force Act 1955 s 42 (UK); Naval Discipline Act 1957 s 27 (UK) Offences involving alcohol and drugsHeading: amended, on 18 December 2013, by section 417(1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 (2012 No 120).
For the purposes of this section, the term intelligence means information that would or might be, or purports to be, directly or indirectly useful to the enemy.Compare: 1950 No 39 ss 24(c), 25(d); 1950 No 40 ss 24(c), 25(d); Army Act 1955 s 25 (UK); Air Force Act 1955 s 25 (UK); Naval Discipline Act 1957 s 5(a), (b) (UK)Section 24(1): amended, on 26 December 1989, by section 5(3) of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989 (1989 No 119).
However, when borne on the books of any of HM ships or Naval Establishments, Royal Marines are subject to the Naval Discipline Act 1957 and in these circumstances the relative rank of RM officers of the rank of colonel and below is one grade higher.
On 18 June 1998 he was convicted, pursuant to section 42 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957, by a naval court-martial of unlawfully and maliciously wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm contrary to the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
Compare: 1950 No 39 s 65; 1950 No 40 s 65; Army Act 1955 s 74 (UK); Air Force Act 1955 s 74 (UK); Naval Discipline Act 1957 s 45 (UK) Section 88(1): amended, on 1 April 1990, by section 105(1) of the Defence Act 1990 (1990 No 28).