Section 170: Powers of civil courts

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act prohibiting retrial where conviction is quashed, nothing in this Act shall restrict the offences for which a person may be tried by a civil court, or the jurisdiction of a civil court to try a person subject to service law under this Act for an offence.
(2) Where a person is tried by a civil court for an offence and he has in pursuance of this Act been punished for an act or omission constituting (whether wholly or in part) that offence by his commanding officer or appropriate superior authority, the civil court shall, in awarding punishment, have regard to his punishment in pursuance of this Act.