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| | This Act may be cited as the Navy Act. |
| 2.
| | Sri Lanka Navy.[ 2, 21 of 1979.] |
| 3.
| | Regular Naval Force. |
| 4.
| | Regular Naval Reserve . |
| 5.
| | Volunteer Naval Force. |
| 6.
| | Volunteer Naval Reserve. |
| 7.
| | Training. |
| 8.
| | Captain of the Navy.[2 Law33 of 1976.] |
| 9.
| | Appointment of commissioned officers. |
| 10.
| | Duration of appointments. |
| 11.
| | Resignation. |
| 12.
| | Enlistment. |
| 13.
| | Original enlistment, and re-engagement. |
| 14.
| | Discharge of seamen of Volunteer Naval Force or Volunteer Naval Reserve. |
| 15.
| | Employment of Regular Naval Force. |
| 16.
| | Employment of Regular Naval Reserve, Volunteer Naval Force, and Volunteer Naval Reserve. |
| 17.
| | Prolongation of service in the Navy. |
| 18.
| | Relations between naval, military, and airforces of Sri Lanka acting together. |
| 19.
| | Officers and seamen of the Navy in ships and naval establishments of any member of the Commonwealth other than Sri Lanka. |
| 20.
| | Co-operation with foreign naval force. |
| 21.
| | Performance of non-naval duties. [ 2 8 of 1962.] |
| 22.
| | Meaning of " Person subject to naval law". |
| 23.
| | Persons liable to naval custody. |
| 24.
| | Persons who may order navalcustody. |
| 25.
| | Naval custody of officer seaman not on active service. |
| 26.
| | Time-limit for prosecution. |
| 27.
| | Trial and punishment of offenders who have ceased to be subject to naval law. |
| 28.
| | Summary trial of offenders by commanding officers. |
| 29.
| | Right of offender who is a petty officer to elect to be tried summarily or by court martial. |
| 30.
| | Delegation of commanding judicial powers. |
| 31.
| | Witnesses at summary trials evidence on oath or affirmation. |
| 32.
| | Record of proceedings at summary trials |
| 33.
| | Jurisdiction of courts martial. |
| 34.
| | Authorities who may orals courts martial to be held. |
| 35.
| | Constitution of courts martial. |
| 36.
| | Where courts martial are to be held. |
| 37.
| | Sittings of courts martial. |
| 38.
| | Appointment of Judge -Advocate. |
| 39.
| | Duties of judge-Advocate. |
| 40.
| | Oath or affirmation to be taken or made by members of court martial, Judge-Advocate, and witnesses. |
| 41.
| | Objections by accused to members of court martial. |
| 42.
| | Dissolution of courts martial. |
| 43.
| | Manner of deciding questions before court martial. |
| 44.
| | Recommendation to mercy. |
| 45.
| | Power to order place of court martial to be cleared of persons. |
| 46.
| | Effect of acquittal or conviction of an offence. |
| 47.
| | Where offence proved is included in offence charged. |
| 48.
| | Accused who is of unsound mind. |
| 49.
| | imprisonment or ordetention of offender who is under sentence for previous offence. |
| 50.
| | Counsel at court martial. |
| 51.
| | Report of proceedings of court martial. |
| 52.
| | Right of person tried by court martial to copy of proceedings. |
| 53.
| | Preservation of records of proceedings of courts martial. |
| 54.
| | Misconduct in action. |
| 55.
| | Not pursuing the enemy or not assisting a friend in view. |
| 56.
| | Delaying or discouraging service. |
| 57.
| | Spies. |
| 58.
| | Correspondence, & c., with the enemy. |
| 59.
| | Improper communication with enemy. |
| 60.
| | Abandonment of post. & c.,. when on active service. |
| 61.
| | Absence without leave,& c when not on active service. |
| 62.
| | Absence without leave for one month. |
| 63.
| | Mutiny with violence. |
| 64.
| | Mutiny without violence. |
| 65.
| | Incitement to mutiny. |
| 66.
| | Making mutinous assemblies or uttering words of mutiny. |
| 67.
| | Concealment of mutinous practice. |
| 68.
| | Striking or attempting to strike, &c, superior officer. |
| 69.
| | Disobedience of or use of threatening language to superior officer. |
| 70.
| | Quarrelling or using reproachful speech or gestures. |
| 71.
| | Desertion. |
| 72.
| | Inducing desertion. |
| 73.
| | Entertaining deserter. |
| 74.
| | Absence of member of court martial without just cause. |
| 75.
| | Misconduct of and contempt by witness subject to naval law. |
| 76.
| | False evidence by witness subject naval law. |
| 77.
| | Permitting escape of person in custody. |
| 78.
| | Irregular arrest or confinement. |
| 79.
| | Escape from confinement. |
| 80.
| | Corrupt dealings in respect of supplies to the Navy. |
| 81.
| | Embezzlement, am pc, of naval stores. |
| 82.
| | Deficiency in or injury to naval property. |
| 83.
| | Unlawfully burning property. |
| 84.
| | False documents and declarations. |
| 85.
| | False accusations. |
| 86.
| | Enlistment of seaman, soldier, or airman discharged with disgrace. |
| 87.
| | False answers on enlistment. |
| 88.
| | General offences on relation to enlistment. |
| 89.
| | Drunkenness and immorality. |
| 90.
| | Cruelty and scandalous conduct. |
| 91.
| | Suffering ships or aircraft to be improperly lost. |
| 92.
| | Not taking care and defending ship under convey. |
| 93.
| | Taking articles on board a ship other than for use of the ship. |
| 94.
| | Causing or aggravating disease or infirmity. |
| 95.
| | Stirring up disturbance on account of victuals or other grounds. |
| 96.
| | Papers found aboard a prize vessel. |
| 97.
| | Embezzlement of proerty belonging to prize vessel. |
| 98.
| | ill-treatment of persons on board a prize vessel. |
| 99.
| | Collusion in capturing a vessel as prize, & c. |
| 100.
| | Breaking bulk on board prize vessel with a view to embezzle. |
| 101.
| | Persons subject to naval law giving or receiving illegal gratification in respect of appointments or promotions in the Navy. |
| 102.
| | Injurious disclosures. |
| 103.
| | Failure to deliver to civil court officers and seamen charged with, or convicted of, civil offences. |
| 104.
| | Offences against naval discipline not particularly mentioned. |
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| | Unlawful recruiting. |
| 106.
| | False answers by applicants for enlistment. |
| 107.
| | Inducing or assisting officers or seamen lo desert or absent themselves without leave. |
| 108.
| | Interference with naval duties. |
| 109.
| | Persons not subject to naval law giving or receiving illegal gratification in respect of appointments or promotions in the Navy. |
| 110.
| | Purchase of naval property. |
| 111.
| | Possession of naval certificate as security for debt. |
| 112.
| | Unauthorized use of naval decorations, & c. |
| 113.
| | Obligations of employers. |
| 114.
| | Misconduct of civilian witness. |
| 115.
| | False evidence and contempt by civilian witness. |
| 116.
| | Unauthorized training of a naval nature. |
| 117.
| | Persons not subject to naval law who aid escape or attempt to escape of naval prisoners or who contravene naval prison regulations. |
| 118.
| | Treason, murder,homicide not amounting to murder, and rape. |
| 119.
| | Any civil offence not mentioned in section 118, |
| 120.
| | Scale of punishments. |
| 121.
| | Special provisions in regard to the award of punishments. |
| 122.
| | Revision of sentences. |
| 123.
| | Sentence of death. |
| 124.
| | Committing authorities. |
| 125.
| | Committal, transfer, removal and release of naval prisoners. |
| 126.
| | Commencement of term of imprisonment or detention. |
| 127.
| | Detention in naval custody. |
| 128.
| | Prisoners of unsound mind. |
| 129.
| | Establishment of naval prisons and naval detention quarters. |
| 130.
| | Jurisdiction of civil courts affected by this act. |
| 131.
| | Delivery of naval offenders to the civil powers. |
| 132.
| | Issue of prerogative writs by Court of Appeal. |
| 133.
| | Actions against persons for acts done under this Act. |
| 134.
| | Rules of evidence in proceedings before courts martial. |
| 135.
| | Application of sections 136 to 146. |
| 136.
| | Proof of answers given by a person on enlistment or re-engagement as a seaman. |
| 137.
| | Proof of enlistment. |
| 138.
| | Letters, returns, or other documents respecting service. |
| 139.
| | Copies of regulations and orders printed by Government Printer. |
| 140.
| | Navy list or Gazette. |
| 141.
| | Orders made under this Act by naval authorities. |
| 142.
| | Record made in a book of the Navy in pursuance of duty. |
| 143.
| | Descriptive return. |
| 144.
| | Certificate regarding surrender of alleged deserter or absentee without leave. |
| 145.
| | Certificate regarding arrest or surrender of officer or seaman outside Sri Lanka. |
| 146.
| | Copy of proceedings of court of martial. |
| 147.
| | Evidence of conviction or civil court. |
| 148.
| | Trial of officers for disciplinary offences in time of war. |
| 149.
| | Armed rebels and mutineers. |
| 150.
| | Power to arrest offenders. |
| 151.
| | Arrest of deserters and absentees without leave. |
| 152.
| | Restriction on arrest of officer or seaman for debt. |
| 153.
| | Assignment, seizure, or sequestration of pay, & c. |
| 154.
| | Maintenance of wife and children. |
| 155.
| | Power as to restitution of stolen property. |
| 156.
| | Members of any foreign naval force attached to the Navy of Sri Lanka. |
| 157.
| | Vesting of naval property in Commander of the Navy. |
| 158.
| | Provisions as to orders by Commander of the Navy. |
| 159.
| | Naval ports. |
| 160.
| | Exclusion or modified application of written law affecting ports. |
| 161.
| | Regulations. |
| 163.
| | Interpretation. |
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