Clause 152

When any person has been acquitted in a trial before a subordinate military court and the person appointed under paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section 80 of this Act has, within one month from the date of such acquittal or such time as the Military Court of Appeal may permit, signed and filed with the registrar a certificate that the determination of such trial involved a question of law which it is desirable to have determined by the Military Court of Appeal the Court shall review the case or such part of it as may be necessary and shall deliver a declaratory judgment thereon.

A declaratory judgment of the Military Court of Appeal under subsection (1) of this section shall not operate to reverse an order of acquittal, but such judgment shall thereafter be binding upon all other subordinate military courts in the same manner as an ordinary judgment of the Military Court of Appeal.

The powers conferred upon the person appointed under paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section 80 of this Act by this section shall be exercisable by him only.