Section 49. Alternative punishments awardable by Security Force Courts

49. Alternative punishments awardable by Security Force Courts . — Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Security Force Court may, on convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences specified in sections 14 to 45 (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 48 regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence. — 50. Combination of punishments. A sentence of a Security Force Court may award in addition to, or without any one other punishment, the punishment specified in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 48, and any one or more of the punishments specified in clauses (e) to (l) (both inclusive) of that sub-section. — 51. Retention in the Force of a person convicted on active duty. When on active duty any enrolled person has been sentenced by a Security Force Court to dismissal or to imprisonment whether combined with dismissal or not, the prescribed officer may direct that such person may be retained to serve in the ranks, and such service shall be reckoned as part of his term of imprisonment if any. — 52. Punishments otherwise than by Security Force Courts. Punishments may also be inflicted in respect of offences committed by persons subject to this Act without the intervention of a Security Force Court in the manner stated in sections 53 and 55. — 53. Minor punishments. Subject to the provisions of section 54, a Commandant or such other officer as is, with the consent of Central Government, specified by the Director-General may, in the prescribed manner, proceed against a person subject to this Act, otherwise than as an officer or a sub-ordinate officer, 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 Force 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 special position or special emoluments or any acting rank or reduction to a lower grade of pay; (f) forfeiture of good service and good conduct pay; - (g) severe reprimand or reprimand; - (h) fine up to fourteen days pay in any one month; (i) deductions from his pay of any sum required to make good such compensation for any expense, loss, damage or destruction caused by him to the Central Government, or to any building or property as may be awarded by his Commandant.