70. Civil offences not triable by court-martial. -A person subject to this Act who commits an offence of murder against a person not subject to military, naval or air force law or of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against such a person or of rape in relation to such a person, shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall not be tried by a court-martial, unless he commits any of the said offences- (a) While on active service, or (b) At any place outside India, or (c) At a frontier post specified by the Central Government by notification in this behalf. Explanation omitted by Act 13 of 1975, Sec. 4.
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