Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs. by Act 19 of 1955. s. 2 and Sch., for cl. (iv) (v) " commanding officer", when used in any provision of this Act, with reference to any separate portion of the regular Army or to any department thereof, means the officer whose duty it is under the regulations of the regular Army, or in the absence of any such regulations, by the custom of the service, to discharge with respect to that portion of the regular Army or that department, as the case may be, the functions of a commanding officer in regard to matters of the description referred to in that provision; (vi) " corps" means any separate body of persons subject to this Act, which is prescribed as a corps for the purposes of all or any of the provisions of this Act; (vii) " court- martial" means a court- martial held under this Act; (viii) " Criminal Court" means a Court of ordinary criminal justice in any part of India 1[ ; (ix) " department" includes any division or branch of a department; (x) " enemy" includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to military law to act; (xi) " the Forces" means the regular Army, Navy and Air Force or any part of any one or more of them; (xii) " junior commissioned officer" means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as a junior commissioned officer in the regular Army or the Indian Reserve Forces, and includes a person holding a junior commission in the Indian Supplementary Reserve Forces. or the Territorial Army, 2[ who is for the time being subject to this Act; (xiii) " military custody" means the arrest or confinement of a person according to the usages of the service and includes naval or air force custody;