Resistance to arrest

(1) Any person subject to military law, who, being concerned in any quarrel or disorder, refuses to obey any officer subject to military law who orders him into arrest, or strikes or otherwise uses violence to, or offers violence to, any such officer, commits an offence whether or not the officer is his superior officer. (2) Any person subject to military law who strikes or otherwise uses violence to, or offers violence to, any person, 36 whether subject to military law or not, whose duty is to apprehend him or in whose custody he is, commits an offence. (3) Any person guilty of an offence against this section shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act.