200. Prescribed officer under section 162. — The prescribed officer for the purposes of section 162 shall, whenever any division or brigade is temporarily withdrawn from its territorial area, be the officer, not being below the rank of field officer, commanding the corresponding divisional or brigade area, within which the trial is held: Provided that, when the officer who held the trial is himself the commander of such area, he shall forward the proceedings to superior authority. When the trial is held on board a ship the prescribed officer shall be the officer commanding the troops on board the ship or the officer who would have had power to deal with the proceedings had the trial been held at the port of disembarkation: Provided that, when the officer who held the trial is himself the officer commanding the troops on board the ship, he shall forward the proceedings to the authority at the port of disembarkation.
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