Power to arrest offenders

(1) Any person subject to military law found committing an offence against any provision of this Act, or alleged to have committed or reasonably suspected of having committed any such offence, may be arrested in accordance with the following provisions of this section. (2) An officer may be arrested by an officer subject to military law of superior rank, or, if engaged in a quarrel or disorder, by such an officer of any rank. (3) A soldier may be arrested by an officer, warrant officer or non- commissioned officer subject to military law: Provided that a person shall not be arrested by virtue of this sub- section except by a person of superior rank. (4) The power of arrest given to any person by this section may be exercised either personally or by ordering into arrest the person to be arrested or by giving orders for that person’s arrest.