Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923

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Fraud by persons in charge of moneys or goods.

47.—Every person subject to military law who commits the following offence, that is to say:—

Being officially, by virtue of his office or otherwise, charged with or concerned in the care, control, possession or distribution of any public or military money or goods, the offence of stealing, fraudulently misapplying or misappropriating the same, or conniving at or being concerned in the stealing, fraudulent misapplication or misappropriation of the same, or wilfully damaging the same,

shall, on conviction by Court-Martial, be liable to suffer penal servitude or such less punishment as in this Act mentioned.