167. Execution of sentence of detention. When any sentence of detention is passed under this
Act, or when any sentence so passed is commuted to detention, the punishment shall be carried out
by detaining the offender in any Military or Air Force detention barracks, detention cells or other
Military or Air Force custody, and when the sentence is to be carried out by detention in any Military
or Air Force detention barracks, the commanding officer of the person under sentence, or such other
officer as may be prescribed, shall forward the person under sentence, together with a warrant in the
prescribed form, to the officer in charge of the said detention barracks.
168. Interim custody of persons under sentence of 1[stoning to death,] death, imprisonment
or detention.___(1) When a person is sentenced by Court‑martial to suffer 1[stoning to death or]
death and the sentence has been confirmed, the commanding officer of such person, or such officer
as may be prescribed may, if he thinks fit, by warrant in the prescribed form, commit the said person
for safe custody in a civil prison pending the execution of the sentence, and may similarly, by warrant
in the prescribed form direct that the person so committed be re‑delivered into Air Force custody, or
that he be released or confined in accordance with any order duly made under this Act setting aside
or varying the sentence of1[Stoning to death or] death.
Any such warrant shall be sufficient authority for the execution of the orders contained therein.
(2) A person sentenced under this Act to imprisonment or detention may, until he reaches the
prison or detention barracks in which he is to undergo his sentence, be kept in Air Force custody or in
Civil custody, or partly in one description of custody and partly in the other, and may, by order of
such officer as may be prescribed, from time to time be transferred from one to the other, as occasion
may require.
1 Ins. by the Pakistan Air Force (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1984 (38 of 1984), s. 18.
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