(1) No presiding officer or other member of the Coast Guard Court, no Law Officer, no party to any proceedings before a Coast Guard Court or no advocate or agent of such party, and no witness acting in obedience to a summons to attend a Coast Guard Court shall, while proceeding to, attending of returning from, a Coast Guard Court, be liable to arrest under any civil or revenue process.
(2) If any such person is arrested under any such process, he may be discharged by order of the Coast Guard Court.
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51. Priority for hearing of cases concerning persons in the Coast Guard Service.
- (1) On the presentation to any civil or criminal or revenue court, by or on behalf of any person in the Coast Guard Service while subject to the Act of a certificate from the proper Coast Guard authority of leave of absence having been granted to or applied for by him for the purpose of prosecuting or defending any suit or other proceedings in such court, the court shall, on the application of such person, arrange, so far as may be possible for the hearing and final disposal of such suit, or other proceeding within the period of the leave granted or applied for.
(2) The certificate from the proper Coast Guard authority shall state the first and the last day of the leave granted or applied for and set forth a description of the case with respect to which the leave has been granted or applied for and shall be duly signed and authenticated by such authority.
(3) No fee shall be payable to the court in respect of the presentation of any such certificate, or in respect of any application by or on behalf of any such person for priority for the hearing of his case and every such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the correctness of the contents thereof.
(4) Where the court is unable to arrange for the hearing and final disposal of the suit or other proceeding within the period of the leave granted or applied for as aforesaid, it shall record its reasons for having been unable to do so, and shall cause a copy thereof to be furnished to such person on his application without any payment whatever by him in respect either of the application for such copy or of the copy itself.