Clause 115

all ordinary pay —

for every day of absence either on desertion or without leave, or as a prisoner of war;

for every day of imprisonment, corrective training, preventive detention, reformative training or detention of any other description, to which he is liable in consequence of an order or sentence of a civil court;

for every day of imprisonment, detention or field punishment awarded by a court-martial, the soldier’s commanding officer, or, in the case of a soldier on board a ship, the commanding officer of that ship, and for every day while a soldier is in custody on a charge for an offence of which he is afterwards convicted by a court-martial, or on a charge of absence without leave for which he is afterwards awarded detention or field punishment by his commanding officer;

all ordinary pay for every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness certified by the proper medical officer attending on him at the hospital to have been caused by an offence under this Act committed by him;

the sum required to make good such compensation for any expenses, loss, damage or destruction occasioned by the commission of any offence as may be awarded by the court-martial by whom he is convicted of such offence or by the authority dealing summarily with a charge under section 53, or if he is on board a ship, by the commanding officer of that ship, or where he has confessed the offence and his trial is dispensed with by order under section 75, as may be awarded by that order or by any other order of a competent military authority under that section;

the sum required to make good such compensation for any expenses caused by him, or for any loss of or damage or destruction done by him to any arms, ammunition, equipments, clothing, instruments, or regimental necessaries or military decoration, or to any buildings or property, as may be awarded by his commanding officer, or by the authority dealing summarily with a charge under section 53, or, in case he requires to be tried by a court-martial, by that court-martial, or if he is on board a ship, by the commanding officer of that ship;

the share he is required to contribute as belonging to a unit towards compensation for barrack damage which after due investigation, to be held in the manner provided by regulations made under this Act, appears to have been occasioned by the wilful act or negligence of a person or persons who cannot be identified, belonging to the unit, during the period while such unit was in occupation;For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression “barrack damage” means damage to or loss or destruction of any premises in which soldiers are quartered or billeted, or any appurtenances, fixtures, furniture or effects therein or appertaining thereto, and the expression “unit” includes any part of a unit;

where a soldier at the time of his enlistment belonged to any part of the volunteer force, the sum required to make good any compensation for which at the time of his enlistment he was under stoppage of pay as a member of the volunteer force, and any sum which he is liable to pay by reason of his quitting the said part of the volunteer force upon his enlistment;

the sum required to pay a fine awarded by a court-martial or his commanding officer, or any fine, penalty, damages, compensation, or costs which a civil court before which he has been charged with an offence has ordered him to pay; and

the sum required to pay for the maintenance of his wife or child, or of any illegitimate child, or towards the cost of any relief given by way of loan to his wife or child:Provided that —

the total amount of deduction from the ordinary pay due to a soldier in respect of the sums required to pay any compensation, fine or sum awarded or ordered to be paid as aforesaid shall not exceed such sums as will leave to the soldier, after paying for his messing and washing, less than five cents a day;

a person shall not be subjected in respect of any compensation, fine or sum awarded or ordered to be paid as aforesaid to any deductions greater than is sufficient to make good the expenses, loss, damage or destruction for which such compensation is awarded, or to pay the said sum; and

where a soldier who is sentenced or ordered in respect of an offence on active service to forfeit all ordinary pay is liable to any other penal deductions from pay, the sentence or order shall apply only to so much of his ordinary pay as remains after those other deductions have been made.