Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923

Offences in relation to enlistment.

61.—Every person who having become subject to military law is discovered to have committed any of the following offences, that is to say:—

(1) Having been discharged with ignominy from the Forces, the offence of re-enlisting without declaring the circumstances of his discharge; or

(2) The offence of making a wilfully false answer to any question set forth in the attestation paper, which has been put to him by or by the direction of the District Justice, Peace Commissioner or officer before whom he appears for the purpose of being attested;

shall, on conviction by Court-Martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.