Part II Revision of Service Offences and Punishments

Billeting offences

18 Billeting offences. C1

Section 47 of the M1Army Act 1955 and section 47 of the Air Force Act 1955 (billeting offences) shall each be amended so as to correspond with section 32 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957, that is to say, by substituting for paragraph (c) (offence for person billeted in any premises to commit any offence against other persons or property therein, or to damage the premises or any such property wilfully or by wilful neglect) the following paragraph:—

c

wilfully or by wilful neglect damages, or causes or allows to be damaged, any premises in which he is billeted in pursuance of such a requisition, or any property being in such premises.