Clause 9

Subject to subsection (2) the following deductions may, or if regulations so provide shall, be made from the ordinary pay due to a member of the Corps: —

all ordinary pay —

for every day of absence on desertion or without leave, or for overstaying the period for which leave of absence is granted;

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 court or order of the civil power;

for every day of detention imposed under section 17 or 18;

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 a court by whom he is convicted of the offence or by a person conducting the disciplinary proceedings against him under this Act or any regulations made thereunder;

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, equipment, clothing, instruments or to any buildings or property, as may be awarded by a court or by a person conducting the disciplinary proceedings against him under this Act or any regulations made thereunder; and

the sum required to pay a fine imposed under section 17 or 18 or any fine, penalty, damages, compensation or costs which a court before which he has been charged with an offence has ordered him to pay.(2) The total amount of deduction from the ordinary pay due to a member of the Corps in respect of the sums required to pay any compensation, fine or sum awarded or ordered to be paid under subsection (1) shall not exceed such sums as will leave to him less than one dollar a day; and a member shall not be subjected to any deductions greater than is sufficient to make good the expenses, loss, damage or destruction for which the compensation is awarded, or to pay the sum awarded or ordered.Supplemental provisions as to deductions from ordinary pay23C.—

Any sum authorised by this Act to be deducted from the ordinary pay of a member of the Corps may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovering the same, be deducted from the ordinary pay or from any sums due to the member, in such manner, and when deducted or recovered may be appropriated in such manner, as may from time to time be directed by any regulations made under this Act.(2) Any regulations made under subsection (1) may from time to time declare what shall, for the purposes of this Act relating to deductions from pay, be deemed to constitute a day of absence or a day of imprisonment or detention, so, however, that —

no person shall be treated as absent, imprisoned or detained for the purposes of this Act unless the absence, imprisonment or detention has lasted six hours or more, except where the absence prevented the absentee from fulfilling any duty;

a period of absence, imprisonment or detention which commences before and ends after midnight may be reckoned as a day;

the number of days shall be reckoned as from the time when the absence, imprisonment or detention commences; and

no period of less than twenty-four hours shall be reckoned as more than one day.”.