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Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

Offences - Offences involving mutiny

33: Failure to suppress or report mutiny

You could also call this:

"Not stopping or telling about a planned mutiny can get you in big trouble"

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If you know a mutiny is happening or planned, you must try your best to stop it. You must also try your best to report it right away. If you do not do these things, you can be imprisoned for life.

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Offences involving mutiny

33Failure to suppress or report mutiny

  1. Every person subject to this Act commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for life, who, knowing that a mutiny is taking place or is intended,—

  2. fails to use his utmost efforts to suppress or prevent the mutiny; or
    1. fails to use his utmost efforts to report forthwith that the mutiny is taking place or is intended.