PART IIAmendments of Services Acts etc.

Offences

4Elimination of distinctions between certain offences

(1)In sections 28(a), 29(6), 33(l)(a), 55(1) and (2) and 65(a) and (b) of each of the 1955 Acts and in sections 6(b), 11(a), 24(a), 33B(1) and (2) and 36A(a) and (b) of the 1957 Act (offences consisting m striking a person or in otherwise ill-treating him or using violence to him or force against him), the words " strikes or otherwise ", wherever occurring, shall be omitted.

(2)In section 69 of each of the 1955 acts in section 39 of the 1957 Act (conduct or neglect to the prejudice of good order and military discipline), for the words " of any conduct or neglect" there shall be substituted the words ", whether by any act or omission or otherwise, of conduct ".