Cap. 220 Art. 75Civil offences.

(1) Any person subject to military law who commits a civil offence outside Malta shall be guilty of an offence against this article.

(2) In this Act the expression "the corresponding civil offence" means the civil offence the commission of which constitutes the offence against this article.

(3) A person convicted by court-martial of an offence against this article shall be liable to suffer any punishment or punishments which a civil court could award for the corresponding civil offence, if committed in Malta, being a punishment or punishments provided by this Act, or such punishment, less than the maximum which a civil court could so award, as is so provided:

Provided that where a civil court could not so award imprisonment, a person so convicted shall be liable to suffer such punishment, less than cashiering in the case of an officer, or detention in the case of a man of the force, as is so provided.