Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

Offences - Offences involving ships, aircraft, vehicles, etc

65: Dangerous acts or omissions

You could also call this:

"Hurting people with ships, aircraft, or weapons on purpose or by being careless is against the law."

Illustration for Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

You can commit an offence if you do something wrong with a ship, aircraft, or weapon. If you do something on purpose without permission, you could go to prison for up to 10 years. This is because your actions might hurt someone, even if that doesn't actually happen. You can also commit an offence if you are careless with a ship, aircraft, or weapon. If you do something carelessly, you could go to prison for up to 5 years. This is because your careless actions might hurt someone, even if that doesn't actually happen. If you are in the Armed Forces, you must be careful when using or looking after dangerous things. You must not do anything that might hurt someone on purpose or by being careless. This rule is to keep people safe from getting hurt by dangerous things.

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Part 2Offences
Offences involving ships, aircraft, vehicles, etc

65Dangerous acts or omissions

  1. Every person subject to this Act commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, who, while operating, handling, servicing, or storing a ship, aircraft, armoured fighting vehicle, weapon, missile, explosive, or other dangerous thing, which is used by or is under the control of the Armed Forces or an allied force, wilfully and without authority does or omits any act which to his knowledge is likely to cause loss of life or bodily injury to any person other than an enemy (whether loss of life or bodily injury actually occurs or not).

  2. Every person subject to this Act commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, who, while operating, handling, servicing, or storing a ship, aircraft, armoured fighting vehicle, weapon, missile, explosive, or other dangerous thing, which is used by or is under the control of the Armed Forces or an allied force, negligently does or omits any act which he knows, or which having regard to all the circumstances of the case he ought to know, is likely to cause loss of life or bodily injury to any person other than an enemy (whether loss of life or bodily injury actually occurs or not).