Section 93
Arrest
(1)
Every person subject to service law under this Act found committing an offence against any provision of this Act, or alleged to have committed or reasonably suspected of having committed any such offence, may be arrested in accordance with the following provisions.
(2)
An officer may be arrested by an officer of the regular forces of superior rank, or if engaged in a mutiny, quarrel or disorder, by such an officer of any rank.
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(3)
A serviceman or a volunteer (when subject to service law under this Act) may be arrested by any officer, warrant officer or non-commissioned officer of the regular forces:
Provided that a person shall not be arrested by virtue of this subsection except by a person of superior rank.
(4)
A rating exercising authority as a member of the regulating staff or as a member of the staff of the officer of the watch may arrest any rating.
(5)
A provost officer or any officer, warrant officer or non-commissioned officer or rating legally exercising authority under a provost officer, may arrest any officer, serviceman or volunteer (when subject to service law under this Act):
Provided that an officer shall not be arrested by virtue of this subsection except on the order of another officer.
(6)
The power of arrest given to any person by this section may
(subject to the provisions of any regulations made under this Act) be exercised either personally or by ordering into arrest the person to be arrested or by giving orders for that person’s arrest.
(7)
In this section the expressions “officer of the regular forces” and
“warrant officer or non-commissioned officer of the regular forces”
include an officer, warrant officer or non-commissioned officer of any of the volunteer forces when they are subject to service law under this Act and of any foreign force duly appointed, seconded or attached to any of the regular forces or when such members of a foreign force are serving together or acting in combination with any of the regular forces under subsections 17(3) and (4) of the Visiting Forces Act 1960.