Clause 152

the obligation on a commanding officer to deal summarily with a soldier charged with drunkenness shall not apply to a non-commissioned officer charged with drunkenness;

the Army Board, and

outside Singapore, the officer commanding the forces, if not below the rank of general officer, and if appointed for that purpose by the Army Board; and

on active service, the officer commanding-in-chief in the field, and any general officer, brigadier or colonel whom he or the Army Board may appoint,may reduce any non-commissioned officer to the ranks or to any lower grade;

a non-commissioned officer may, by the sentence of a court-martial, be ordered to be reduced to the ranks or to any lower grade, or to forfeit seniority of rank, either in addition to or without any other punishment, in respect of an offence;

a non-commissioned officer sentenced by court-martial to field punishment, imprisonment or detention shall be deemed to be reduced to the ranks;Provided that a soldier being an acting non-commissioned officer by virtue of his employment either in a superior rank or in an appointment may be ordered by his commanding officer either for an offence or otherwise to revert to his permanent grade as a non-commissioned officer, or, if he has no permanent grade above the ranks, to the ranks.