CO129-592-15 Future policy and draft proclamations- Military Courts 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945 — Page 12

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Standing Military Court or should be discharged.

Article

Jurisdiction.

(1) The Standing Military Court shall have, in all such parts of the Colony as are at any given time under the control of the Allied Forces, jurisdiction over all persons except :

(a) members of the British and Allied Forces; provided that any person who is employed by or in the service of, or is a follower of or is

accompanying my part of the said Forces may be tried by such Standing Military Court unless an officer of the said Forces duly authorised in the behalf by general or special order directs that he be tried by court martial; and,

(b) persons entitled, if captured, to be treated as prisoners of war; provided that any such person who, prior to his capture, has committed an offence against the laws and usages of war may be tried by the Standing Military Court for such offence.

(2) Unless otherwise expressly provided the Standing Military Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of any offence against any valid law or enactment, including the laws and usages of war, in

force in the Colony at the time of its commission and to impose any penalty thereby prescribed.

Article 5

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Composition of the standing Military Court. Standing Military Court shall be composed of such officers of the British and Allied Forces or other persona as the Director of Civil Affairs may from

time to time appoint, to be President, Vice-Presidente or members thereof.

2.