Border Security Force Act : Alternative punishments awardable by Security Force Courts. Indian Bare

Border Security Force Act,1968

Act No : 47

Section : Alternative punishments awardable by Security Force Courts.

49. Alternative punishments awardable by Security Force Courts. Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Security Force Court may, on convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences specified in sections 14 to 45 (both inclusive) award either the particular punishment with which the offence is stated in the said sections to be punishable or, in lieu thereof, any one of the punishments lower in the scale set out in section 48 regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence.