Any person although not belonging to the Indian Navy or the Regular Army or Air Force who is ordered to be received or is a passenger on board any ship or Air Craft of the Indian Navy shall be subject to Naval Law to the extend and subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, namely:-
(a) Any such person who while on board a ship or an Aircraft of the Indian Navy commits any offence against the good order and discipline of the service may be placed under such restraint by the officer in Command of the ship or Aircraft in which he has embarked as the offence or offences committed by him may appear to justify or render necessary and the officer who has occasion to place any such passenger under arrest shall take the earliest opportunity that presents itself of reporting the circumstances to the first senior officer he may fall in with, in order that it may be determined, after due investigation. Whether the alleged offender shall be released from arrest or continue under arrest until the termination of the voyage for which he has embarked or whether he shall be transferred to some other ship or Aircraft of the Indian Navy.
(b) If any such person while on board a ship or Aircraft of the Indian Navy commits any criminal offence punishable by the law of India he may be kept under such restraint as is necessary until an opportunity shall offer of delivering him over to a civil court competent to try him for the same.
(c) Nothing in this regulation shall preclude any person on board a ship or Aircraft of the Indian Navy or on board any ship in the service of the Government to be proceeded against for an offence punishable under section 44.
(d) Officers and sailors who, upon being invalided or discharged, may be ordered or permitted to take passage in any Indian Naval Ship or Aircraft and persons sentenced under the Act so long as they are on board the ship in which they are embarked as passengers shall be subject to Naval Law.