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Wrongful sale, etc., of equipment by a member of the Reserve Defence Force.
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245.—If any person (being a member or former member of the Reserve Defence Force)—
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(a) designedly makes away with, or sells, pawns or wrongfully destroys or damages, or negligently loses, any article issued to him as a member of the Reserve Defence Force, or
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(b) refuses, on demand made by the Minister or any person acting on behalf of the Minister, to deliver up any such article,
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then,—
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(i) he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds,
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(ii) the Court by which he is tried may, whether it convicts him of the offence or not, order him to pay to the Minister the value of the article.
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