Air Force Act 1955

133Powers of civil courts

(1)Nothing in this Act restricts the offences for which persons may be tried by any civil court, or the jurisdiction of any civil court to try a person subject to air-force law for any offence.

(2)Where a person is tried by a civil court for any offence, and he has previously been sentenced by court-martial to punishment for any act or omission constituting (whether wholly or in part) that offence, or in pursuance of this Act he has been punished for any such act or omission by his commanding officer or the appropriate superior authority, the civil court shall, in awarding punishment, have regard to his punishment in pursuance of this Act.