Select Committee on Armed Forces Written Evidence


APPENDIX A

PART 1

DISCIPLINARY OFFENCES WHICH MAY BE DEALT WITH BY ARMY AND RAF COS UNDER THE SDAS

    (a)  Offences by or in relation to sentries.

    (b)  Failure to attend for duty, neglect of duty.

    (c)  Looting (within section 30(c)).

    (d)  Insubordinate behaviour.

    (e)  Disobedience to lawful commands.

    (f)  Failure to provide a sample for drug testing.

    (g)  Obstruction of provost officers.

    (h)  Disobedience to standing orders.

    (i)  Absence without leave.

    (j)  Failure to report or apprehend deserters or absentees.

    (k)  Malingering (within section 42(1)(a) Army and Air Force Acts 1955).

    (l)  Drunkenness.

    (m)  Fighting, threatening words etc.

    (n)  Damage to public or service property.

    (o)  Damage to aircraft or aircraft material (within section 44A(1)(c)(d) and (e)).

    (p)  Interference with equipment or signals (within section 44B(2)).

    (q)  Misapplication and waste of public or service property.

    (r)  Offences relating to issues and decorations.

    (s)  Billeting offences.

    (t)  Inaccurate certification.

    (u)  Permitting escape etc within section 54(2).

    (v)  Resistance to arrest.

    (w)  Escape from confinement.

    (x)  Unauthorised disclosures.

    (y)  Making of false statements on enlistment.

    (z)  Making of false documents (within section 62(1)(a), (b) and (c)).

    (aa)  Ill treatment of officers or men of inferior rank.

    (bb)  Disgraceful conduct.

    (cc)  Attempt to commit summary offences.

    (dd)  Conduct to the prejudice of military discipline.

PART 2

CRIMINAL OFFENCES WHICH MAY BE DEALT WITH BY COS UNDER THE SDAS

    (a)  Common assault or battery.

    (b)  Driving without due care and attention or driving without reasonable consideration.

    (c)  Dangerous riding of a cycle.

    (d)  Riding a cycle without due care and attention or riding a cycle without reasonable consideration.

    (e)  Taking a conveyance.

    (f)  Taking a pedal cycle without consent.

    (g)  Destroying or damaging property contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 where the amount of damage does not exceed £2,000.

    (h)  Getting on to or tampering with a motor vehicle contrary to section 25 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 where the vehicle is on a road.

    (i)  Unlawful possession of a controlled drug contrary to section 5(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Theft.

    (j)  Interfering with a vehicle.

    (k)  Driving a motor vehicle with excess alcohol.

    (l)  Being in charge of a motor vehicle with excess alcohol.

    (m)  Making off without payment where the payment required or expected does not exceed £100.


 
previous page contents next page

House of Commons home page Parliament home page House of Lords home page search page enquiries index

© Parliamentary copyright 2006
Prepared 9 May 2006