Clause 153

where an offence has been committed by any person subject to military law who does not belong to the Singapore armed forces, such person may be tried by any description of court-martial convened by an officer authorised to convene such description of court-martial, within the limits of whose command the offender may for the time being be, and may be tried, and on conviction dealt with and punished accordingly;

any person subject to military law who does not belong to the Singapore armed forces shall, for the purposes of this Act relating to offences, be deemed to be under the command of the commanding officer of the corps or portion of a corps (if any) to which he is attached, and if he is not attached to any corps or a portion of a corps under the command of any officer who may for the time being be named as his commanding officer by the general or other officer commanding the force with which such person may for the time being be, or of any other prescribed officer, or, if no such officer is named or prescribed, under the command of the said general or other officer commanding, but such person shall not be liable to be punished by a commanding officer:Provided that a general or other officer commanding shall not place a person under the command of an officer of rank inferior to the official rank of such person if there is present, at the place where such person is, any officer of higher rank under whose command he can be placed.