Section 54: Making away with equipment.

The Army Act, 1950Central Act · Act 46 of 1950

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,--

(a) makes away with, or is concerned in making away with, any arms, ammunition, equipment, instruments. tools, clothing or any other thing being the property of the Government issued to him for his use or entrusted to him; or

(b) loses by neglect anything mentioned in clause (a); or

shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend in the case of the offences specified in clause (a) to ten years, and in the case of the offences specified in the other clauses to five years, or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Army Act, 1950
Section	54
Marginal note	Making away with equipment.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	1

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