14. Authorised deduction only to be made from pay.—The pay of every person subject to this Act
due to him as such under any rules or regulations for the time being in force shall be paid without any
deduction other than the deductions authorised by or under this Act or any other Act.
15. Remady of aggrieved persons other than officers.—(1) Any person subject to this Act other
than an officer who deems himself wronged by any officer or subordinate officer may complain to the
officer under whose command or orders he is serving.
(2) when the officer complained against is the officer to whom any complaint should, under
sub-section (1), be preferred, the aggrieved person may complain to such officer's next superior officer.
(3) Every officer receiving any such complaint shall make as complete an investigation into it as may
be possible for giving full redress to the complainant; or when necessary, refer the complaint to superior
authority.
(4) Every such complaint shall be preferred in such manner as may, from time to time, be specified by
the Director-General.
(5) The Central Government may revise any decision by the Director-General under sub-section (2),
but, subject thereto, the decision of the Director-General shall be final.
16. Remedy of aggrieved officers.—Any officer who deems himself wronged by his Commandant
or any superior officer and who on due application made to his Commandant or such superior officer does
not receive the redress to which he considers himself entitled, may complain to the Central Government
in such manner as may, from time to time, be specified by the Director-General.
17. Immunity from attachment.—Neither the arms, clothes, equipment, accoutrements or
necessaries of any person subject to this Act, nor any animal used by him for the discharge of his duty
shall be seized, nor shall, the pay and allowances of any such person or any part thereof, be attached by
direction of any civil or revenue court or any revenue officer in satisfaction of any decree or order
enforceable against him.
18. Immunity from arrest for debt.— (1) No person subject to this Act shall, so long as he belongs
to the Force, be liable to be arrested for debt under any process issued by, or by the authority of, any civil
or revenue court or revenue officer, except with the prior consent of the Central Government.
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(2) The Judge of any such court or the said officer may examine into any complaint made by such
person or his superior officer of the arrest of such person contrary to the provisions of this section and
may, by warrant under his hand, discharge the person, and award reasonable costs to the complainant,
who may recover those costs in like manner as he might have recovered costs awarded to him by a decree
against the person obtaining the process.
(3) For the recovery of such costs no court-fee shall be payable by the complainant.
19. Immunity of persons attending Assam Rifles Court from arrest.—(1) No Presiding Officer or
member of an Assam Rifles Court, no Law Officer, no party to any proceeding before an Assam Rifles
Court, or his legal practitioner or agent and no witness acting in obedience to a summons to attend an
Assam Rifles Court shall, while proceeding to, attending or returning from, an Assam Rifles Court, be
liable to arrest under civil or revenue process.
(2) If any such person is arrested under any such process, he may be discharged by order of the
Assam Rifles Court.
20. Savings of rights and privileges under other laws.—The rights and privileges specified in the
preceding section of this Chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other rights and
privileges conferred on persons subject to this Act generally by any other law for the time being in force.