Court-martial jurisdiction: Magistrates must deliver persons liable for military trial to commanding officers, subject to rules. The Central Government may make rules, consistent with the Sanhita and existing armed forces Acts, prescribing when persons subject to armed forces law shall be tried by a Court-martial or by a civilian Court; a Magistrate charged with an offence liable to military trial must consider those rules and, when appropriate, deliver the accused and a statement of the offence to the commanding officer of the unit or nearest armed forces station for trial by a Court-martial. Magistrates must also, on written application by a commanding officer, use utmost endeavours to apprehend and secure accused persons, and a High Court may order a prisoner to be produced before a Court-martial.