Repealed or not in force
Indian Navy Act, 1844, 12 of 1844 (Rep., Act 8 of 1868)
35 sections · As amended up to 2026-08
Sections
- 1Every Officer or other person belonging to the Indian Navy who shall knowingly make or sign a false
- 2No person belonging to the Indian Navy being duly authorized so to do shall refuse to apprehend any
- 3If any Superior Officer, Captain, or Commander, or Lieutenant belonging to the Indian Navy shall be
- 4Every person belonging to the Indian Navy, being in actual service and full pay, who shall be guilty
- 5Every person belonging to the Indian Navy who shall unlawfully burn or set fire to any Magazine, or
- 6Care shall be taken in the conducting and steering of any of the Ships or Vessels of the Indian Navy
- 7No person belonging to the Indian Navy shall sleep upon his watch, or negligently perform the duty i
- 8All murders committed by any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall be punished with death by the sentence of a Court Martial
- 9If any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall commit the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery
- 10Every Superior Officer belonging to the Indian Navy, who upon signal or order of fight, or sight of
- 11Every person belonging to the Indian Navy who shall not duly observe the orders of the Officer Comma
- 12Every person belonging to the Indian Navy who through cowardice, negligence or disaffection shall in
- 13Every person belonging to the Indian Navy who through cowardice, negligence or disaffection shall fo
- 14If when action or any service shall be commanded, any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall pres
- 15Every person in or belonging to the Indian Navy who shall desert to an Enemy, Pirate or Rebel, or ru
- 16Section 16
- 17The Officers and Seamen of all Ships or Vessels belonging to the Indian Navy, appointed for Convoy a
- 18If any Captain, Commander or other Officer of any of the Ships or Vessels of the Indian Navy shall r
- 19If any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall make or endeavour to make any mutinous assembly upo
- 20If any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall conceal any traitorous or mutinous practice or desi
- 21If any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall find cause for complaint of the unwholesomeness of
- 22If any Officer, Engineer, Soldier, Marine, Seaman, or other person belonging to the Indian Navy shal
- 23If any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall quarrel or fight with any other person therein, or
- 24There shall be no embezzlement nor wasteful expense of any Powder, Shot, Ammunition, or other Stores
- 25Every person belonging to the Indian Navy who shall unlawfully burn or set fire to any Magazine, or
- 26Care shall be taken in the conducting and steering of any of the Ships or Vessels of the Indian Navy
- 27No person belonging to the Indian Navy shall sleep upon his watch, or negligently perform the duty i
- 28All murders committed by any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall be punished with death by the sentence of a Court Martial
- 29If any person belonging to the Indian Navy shall commit the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery
- 30Section 30
- 31Every Officer or other person belonging to the Indian Navy who shall knowingly make or sign a false
- 32No person belonging to the Indian Navy being duly authorized so to do shall refuse to apprehend any
- 33If any Superior Officer, Captain, or Commander, or Lieutenant belonging to the Indian Navy shall be
- 34Every person belonging to the Indian Navy, being in actual service and full pay, who shall be guilty
- 35If any person belonging to the Indian Navy, who shall be in actual service and full pay, shall commi