CHAPTER VI

OF CIVIL OFFENCES

6.1 Civil Offences

Subject to the provisions of section 72, any person subject to this Act,
who at any place in or beyond the Union of Myanmar commits any civil
offence shall be deemed to guilty of an offence against this Act, and, if charged
there with under this section, shall be liable to be tried by a court-martial, and
on conviction, be punishable as follows, that is to say;-
(a) if the offence is one which would be punishable under any law in
force in the Union of Myanmar with death or with transportation, he shall be
liable to suffer any punishment, their than whipping assigned for the offence,
by the aforesaid law and such less punishment a is in this Act mentioned; and
(b) In any other case, he shall be liable to suffer any punishment, other
than whipping, assigned for he offence by the law in force in the Union of
Myanmar, or imprisonment of term which may extend to seven years, or such
less punishment as in this Act mentioned.1

Civil Offences not triable by Court-martial

A person subject to this Act who commits an offence of murder against
a person not subject to military law, or of culpable homicide not amounting to
murder against such a person or of rape to such a person, shall not be tried by a
court martial, if he commits any of the said offences-
(a) while on active service, or
(b) at any place outside the Union of Myanmar
(c) at a frontier post specified by the President by notification in
this behalf.2

1
Section 71.
2
Section 72.
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charged
whipping
assigned
culpable homicide
rape