Commentary First Group of Parts – Discipline Part 13 – Discipline: Miscellaneous and Supplementary Section 311: Decisions of court under section 309: making and effect
619.Subsection (1) provides that the rules relating to findings by the Court Martial and the SAC do not apply to this Chapter. Subsection (2) provides that the powers under sections 309 and 311 are to be exercised by the judge advocate alone.
620.Subsections (3) and (4) provide that the court may direct that a committal to service custody under section 309 shall take effect from the end of any period of service detention.
621.The section also provides that although committal to service custody is not service detention, certain of the rules relating to service detention can be applied in respect of such custody.