Section 2

(2) Each of the punishments specified in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be inferior in degree to every punishment preceding it in the above scale. 48. Alternative punishments awardable by Security Guard Courts. Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Security Guard Court may, on convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences specified in sections 15 to 44 (both inclusive) award either the particular punishment with which the offence is stated in the said sections to be punishable or, in lieu thereof, any one of the punishments lower in the scale set out in section 47 regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence. 49. Combination of punishments. A sentence of a Security Guard Court may award in addition to, or without any one other punishment, the punishment specified in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 47 and any one or more of the punishments specified in clauses (e) to (j) (both inclusive) of that sub-section. 50. Punishments otherwise than by Security Guard Courts. Punishments may also be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this Act without the intervention of a Security Guard Court in the manner stated in sections 51 and 53. 51. Minor punishments. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 52, a Commander of and above the rank of a Group Commander may, in the prescribed manner proceed against a person subject to this Act other than an officer or an Assistant Commander, who is charged with an offence under this Act and award such person, to the extent prescribed, one or more of the following punishments, that is to say, - - (a) imprisonment in Security Guard custody up to twenty-eight days; - (b) detention up to twenty-eight days; - (c) confinement to the lines up to twenty-eight days; - (d) extra guards or duties; - (e) deprivation of any acting rank provided such rank has not been held by him for more than two years; - (f) severe reprimand or reprimand; - (g) deductions from his pay and allowances of any sum required to make good any loss or damage occasioned by the offence for which he is punished. 2. If a group is being temporarily commanded by an officer of the rank of a Squadron Commander or a Team Commander, such officer shall have full powers of a Commander as specified in sub-section (1). CHAPTER IV PUNISHMENTS 47. Punishments awardable by Security Guard Courts.