(2) Where an offence against subsection (1) is committed in relation to a courtmartial 1[or court
of appeals] and the court is of opinion that it is expedient that the offender should be dealt with
summarily by the court instead of being brought to trial before another courtmartial, the Court may
by order under the hand of its president sentence him to imprisonment or (except in the case of an
officer) detention, for a term not exceeding twentyone days.
74. False evidence. Every person subject to this Ordinance who, having been lawfully sworn
or affirmed as a witness or as an interpreter in proceedings before a courtmartial or before any board
or person having power by virtue of this Ordinance to administer an oath or affirmation, makes a
statement martial in those proceedings which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, shall
be liable to suffer long imprisonment.
75. Conduct to the prejudice of naval discipline. Every person subject to this Ordinance
who is guilty of any act, disorder or neglect to the prejudice of good order and naval discipline not
described in the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance, shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
(xiii) Attempts and Abetments
76. Attempts to commit naval offence. Every person subject to this Ordinance who attempts to
commit any of the offences specified in the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance, or to cause such
an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence
shall, where no express provision is made by this Ordinance for the punishment of such attempt be
liable,__
(a) if the offence attempted to be committed is punishable with death, to suffer long
imprisonment ;
(b) if the offence attempted to be committed is punishable with imprisonment, to suffer
imprisonment for a term which may extend to onehalf of the longest term provided for
that offence ; and
(c) if the offence attempted to be committed is punishable with dismissal from the service, to
suffer any punishment lower than dismissal in the scale of punishments provided in
section 80.
77. Abetment of offences. Every person subject to this Ordinance who abets the commission of
any of the offences specified in the foregoing provi sions of this Ordinance shall, whether the act
abetted is committed or not in consequence of the abetment and where no express provision is made
by this Ordinance for the punishment of such abetment, be liable to suffer the punishment provided
for that offence.
1 Ins. by the Pakistan Navy (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1984 (37 of 1984), s. 8.
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