Emergency Powers (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1940

Summary trial and punishment of certain offences.

3.—The Government may, by an Order under section 2 of the Principal Act, make provision for the trial, in a summary manner, by commissioned officers of the Defence Forces, of any person alleged to have committed any offence specified in such order, and, in case of the conviction of such person of such offence, for the imposition and the carrying out of the sentence of death, and no appeal shall lie in respect of such conviction or sentence.