Lok Sahayak Sena Act : Officers and penalties. Indian Bare Acts :

Lok Sahayak Sena Act,1956

Act No : 53

Section : Officers and penalties.

8. Officers and penalties.(1) If any volunteer commits any of the following offences, that is to say,- (i) without sufficient cause fails to attend at any place when duly required to do so ; or (ii) while in camp on duty- (a) absents himself from the camp without leave; (b) uses criminal force or uses threatening or in- subordinate language to a superior officer or assaults a superior officer; (c) disobeys any lawful command of a superior officer ; (d) neglects to obey any standing, general or other orders by the officer commanding the camp; (e) uses criminal force to, or assaults, any volunteer or any person subject to the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), or the Territorial Army Act, 1948 (56 of 1948); 292A (f) knowingly does any act which is prejudicial to the maintenance of good order or military discipline in camp; he shall be punishable summarily by order of the prescribed authority with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or, in default, by being confined to barracks for a term which may extend to seven days. (2) Any fine imposed by order of the prescribed authority under sub-section (1) may, on application made in this behalf by the pre- 293 scribed authority to a magistrate having jurisdiction in the place where the volunteer resides or has a place of business, be recovered in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), as if it were a fine imposed by such magistrate.