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Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Schedules

First Schedule

29. Fraudulent enlistment

 

 

(1) Any person who—
(a) being a member of any portion of the South African Defence Force and not having been regularly discharged therefrom, enrols in any other portion of that Force;
(b) having been discharged with disgrace from the South African Defence Force or from a military, naval or air force of any country, enrols in the South African Defence Force without disclosing such discharge with disgrace at the time or enrolment; or
(c) wilfully gives a false answer to any question set forth on any enrolment or enlistment paper,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.

 

(2) For the purposes of this section, the expression 'discharged with disgrace' means cashiered, discharged with ignominy, dismissed because of misconduct or discharged on account of imprisonment.

 

(3) Any person who, having given a false answer to any question set forth on an enlistment or enrolment paper, is thereupon enrolled as a member of the South African Defence Force, shall be deemed to have been subject to this Code at the date upon which such false answer was given.