s 132 Punishments available to commanding officer
(1) The second column of the following Table lists the punishments that may be awarded by a commanding officer who has heard a charge summarily, subject in the case of each punishment to any limitation shown in the third column opposite it. TABLE only if the person being punished is of or below the rank of— leading rate; corporal in the Royal Marines; lance corporal or lance bombardier in any of Her Majesty’s military forces ; corporal in any of Her Majesty's air forces (see also subsection (1A)) (1A) In row 1 of the Table, in paragraph (c) of the entry in the third column, in relation to the Royal Air Force Regiment, the reference to a corporal is to be read as a reference to a lance corporal. (2) Subsection (1) is subject to (in particular)— (a) section 138 (prohibited combinations of punishments) and any regulations made under that section; (b) Chapter 1 of Part 9 (general provisions about sentencing). (3) Where regulations under row 7 of the Table authorise a minor punishment, they may— (a) confer on the offender's commanding officer a power, when awarding the punishment, to direct that the punishment shall take effect from a date after the date of the award; (b) confer on the offender's commanding officer the function of deciding the details of the punishment; (c) provide for the delegation by the commanding officer of any of his functions under the regulations.