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(1)In subsection (1) of section 129 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (which provides that a person subject to that Act who is acquitted or convicted of an offence on trial thereunder shall not be tried subsequently by a civil court for the same offence) and subsection (2) of that section (which, contains provision whereby the trial under that Act of a person subject thereto is barred where he has been acquitted or convicted by a civil court for the same offence) for the words " for the same offence " there shall be substituted the words " for the same, or substantially the same, offence ".
(2)The said subsection (2) shall be extended so that the reference to a civil court in the said provision contained therein shall have effect as a reference to such a court in any country, and accordingly after the words " civil court", in the first place where they occur in that subsection, there shall be inserted the words " wherever situated ".
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