Cap. 220 Art. 164Deserters or absentees without leave surrendering to Police.

(1) Where a person surrenders himself to a Police officer as being illegally absent from the regular force, the Police officer shall (unless he surrenders himself at a Police station) bring him to a Police station.

(2) The Police officer in charge of a Police station at which a person has surrendered himself as aforesaid, or to which a person who has so surrendered himself is brought, shall forthwith inquire into the case, and if it appears to that officer that the said person is illegally absent as aforesaid he may cause him to be delivered into military custody without bringing him before the Court of Magistrates or may bring him before such court.