Repealed or not in force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

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