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Coast Guard borne on Books of Vessels of War to be subject to the same Laws and Customs as Persons serving in the Fleet.
As to summary Punishment.
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VIII. All the Laws, Statutes, Articles, Orders, and Customs for the Time being in force for the Government of Her Majesty’s Ships and Vessels and Forces by Sea, and applicable to any Offence, or the Trial and Punishment of any Offence, committed on the Main Sea, or elsewhere, by any Person in or belonging to the Fleet, or by any Person in actual Service and Full Pay, and Part of the Crew of any of Her Majesty’s Ships or Vessels of War, shall be applicable to such of the Officers and Men of the Coast Guard as shall from Time to Time be borne on the Books of any Ship or Ships belonging to Her Majesty’s Fleet, and to the like Offences by them committed in any Place whatsoever, whilst serving in the Coast-guard Service on shore; and every Officer of the Coast Guard authorized by the Commissioners of the Admiralty, by Commission or Warrant under their Hand, shall from Time to Time have and exercise over the Petty Officers and Men of the Coast Guard under his Command borne on any Ship’s Books as aforesaid, and serving in such Coast-guard Service on shore, such and the like Powers of ordering and inflicting Punishment of Offences by such Officers or Men in any Place whatsoever committed, as by the Laws and Customs of Her Majesty’s Navy, or by any Act of Parliament, or otherwise, may for the Time being be lawfully had and exercised by any Officer commanding any of Her Majesty’s Ships and Vessels of War over the Petty Officers and Men thereof in respect of Offences by them committed; and when any Petty Officers or Men of the Coast Guard shall be punished by Imprisonment under any Sentence or Order of any such Officer of the Coast Guard, they may be imprisoned in any of Her Majesty’s Gaols, or in any House of Correction, or in any other Prison in which Petty Officers or Men serving in Her Majesty’s Navy may for the Time being lawfully be imprisoned by Sentence or Order of any Officer commanding any of Her Majesty’s Ships or Vessels, but no such Order for Imprisonment to be made by any such Officer of the Coast Guard so authorized as aforesaid shall have any Force or Effect until the same shall have been approved of by Writing under the Hand of the Officer of the Coast Guard for the Time being commanding the District within which the Offence shall have been committed; and all Petty Officers and Men of the Coast Guard, when so sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned, or when so imprisoned respectively, shall be deemed and taken to be within the Provisions, as to Persons sentenced to be imprisoned or imprisoned respectively, of an Act of the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-two, which Act, and the Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-nine, shall, so far as the same are or may be applicable, be respectively incorporated with this Act, and be held to apply to the Officers and Men of the Coast Guard borne on Ships Books as aforesaid, and serving in the Coast-guard Service on shore.
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