Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923

Ill-treating a person in military custody.

64.—Every person subject to military law who commits the following offence, that is to say:—

the offence of unlawfully striking or otherwise unlawfully ill-treating any person not subject to military law in military custody,

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