Section 8. Offences and penalties

8. Offences and penalties.— (1) If any volunteer commits any of the following offences, that is to say,— (i) without sufficient cause fails to attend at any place when duly required to do so; or (ii) while in camp on duty— (a) absents himself from the camp without leave; (b) uses criminal force or uses threatening or insubordinate language to a superior officer or assaults a superior officer; (c) disobeys any lawful command of a superior officer; he shall be punishable summarily by order of the prescribed authority with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or, in default, by being confined to barracks for a term which may extend to seven days. (2) Any fine imposed by order of the prescribed authority under sub-section (1), may on application made in this behalf by the prescribed authority to a magistrate having jurisdiction in the place where the volunteer resides or has a place of business, be recovered in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), as if it were a fine imposed by such magistrate.