61. Deductions from pay and allowances of persons subject to this Act.–(1) The following
deductions may be made from the pay and allowances of an officer, namely:–
(a) all pay and allowances due to an officer for every day he absents himself without leave, unless
a satisfactory explanation has been given to, and accepted by, the Inspector-General under whom he
is for the time being serving;
(b) all pay and allowances for every day while he is in custody on a charge for an offence for
which he is afterwards convicted by a criminal court or Force Court or by an officer exercising
authority under section 58;
(c) any sum required to make good the pay of any person subject to this Act which he has
unlawfully retained or unlawfully refused to pay;
(d) any sum required to make good such compensation for any expenses, loss, damage or
destruction occasioned by the commission of an offence as may be determined by the Force Court by
whom he is convicted of such offence or by an officer exercising authority under section 58;
(e) all pay and allowances ordered by Force Court;
(f) any sum required to be paid as fine awarded by a criminal court or a Force Court;
(g) any sum required to make good any loss, damage or destruction of public or Force property
which, after due investigation, appears to the Inspector-General under whom the officer is for the time
being serving, to have been occasioned by the wrongful act or negligence on the part of the officer;
(h) all pay and allowances forfeited by order of the Central Government if the officer is found by
a court of inquiry constituted by the Director-General in this behalf, to have deserted to the enemy, or
while in enemy hands, to have served with, or under the orders of, the enemy, or in any manner to
have aided the enemy, or to have allowed himself to be taken prisoner by the enemy through want of
due precaution or through disobedience of orders or wilful neglect of duty, or having been taken
prisoner by the enemy, to have failed to rejoin his service when it was possible to do so;
(i) any sum required by order of the Central Government to be paid for the maintenance of his
wife or his legitimate or illegitimate child or step child or towards the cost of any relief given by the
said Government to the said wife or child.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 63, the following deductions may be made from the pay and
allowances of a person subject to this Act, other than an officer, namely:–
(a) all pay and allowances for every day of absence either on desertion or without leave or as a
prisoner of war unless a satisfactory explanation has been given and accepted by his commanding
officer and for every day of imprisonment awarded by a criminal court, Force Court or an officer
exercising authority under section 56;
(b) all pay and allowances for every day while he is in custody on a charge for an offence of
which he is afterwards convicted by a criminal court or Force Court or on a charge of absence without
leave for which he is afterwards awarded imprisonment by an officer exercising authority under
section 56;
(c) all pay and allowances for every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness
certified by the medical officer attending on him to have been caused by an offence under this Act
committed by him;
(d) all pay and allowances for every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness
certified by the medical officer attending on him to have been caused by his own misconduct or
imprudence, such sum as may be specified by the order of the Director-General;
(e) all pay and allowances ordered by Force Court or by an officer exercising authority under any
of the sections 56 and 58 to be forfeited or stopped;
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(f) all pay and allowances for every day between his being recovered from the enemy and his
dismissal from the service in consequence of his conduct when being taken prisoner by, or while in
the hands of the enemy;
(g) any sum required to make good such compensation for any expenses, loss, damage or
destruction caused by him to the Central Government or to any building or property or any private
fund of the Force as may be awarded by his commanding officer;
(h) any sum required to pay a fine awarded by a criminal court, Force Court exercising
jurisdiction under section 49 or an officer exercising authority under any of the sections 56 and 60;
(i) any sum required by order of the Central Government or any prescribed officer to be paid for
the maintenance of his wife, or his legitimate or illegitimate child or step child or towards the cost of
any relief given by the said Government to the said wife or child.
(3) For computation of time of absence or custody under this section,–
(a) no person shall be treated as absent or in custody for a day unless the absence or custody has
lasted, whether wholly in one day, or partly in one day and partly in another for six consecutive hours
or upwards;
(b) any absence or custody for less than a day may be reckoned as absence or custody for a day, if
such absence or custody prevented the absentee from fulfilling any duty as member of the Force
which was thereby thrown upon some other person;
(c) absence or custody for twelve consecutive hours or upwards may be reckoned as absence or
custody for the whole of each day during any portion of which the person was absent or in custody;
(d) a period of absence, or imprisonment, which commences before, and ends after, midnight may
be reckoned as a day.
62. Pay and allowances during trial.–In the case of any person subject to this Act who is in custody
or under suspension from duty on a charge for an offence, the prescribed officer may direct that the whole
or any part of the pay and allowances of such person shall be withheld, pending the result of his trial on
the charge against him, in order to give effect to the provisions of clause (b) of sub-sections(1) and (2) of
section 61.
63. Limit of certain deductions.–The total deductions from the pay and allowances of a person made
under clauses (e) and (g) to (i) of sub-section (2) of section 61 shall not, except where he is sentenced to
dismissal or removal, exceed in any one month one-half of his pay and allowances for that month.
64. Deduction from public money due to a person.–Any sum authorised by this Act to be deducted
from the pay and allowances of any person may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovering the
same, be deducted from any public money due to him other than a pension.
65. Pay and allowances of prisoner of war during inquiry into his conduct.–Where the conduct of
any person subject to this Act when being taken prisoner by, or while in the hands of, the enemy, is to be
inquired into under this Act or any other law, the Director-General or any officer authorised by him may
order that the whole or any part of the pay and allowances of such person shall be withheld pending the
result of such inquiry.
66. Remission of deductions.–Any deduction from pay and allowances authorised by this Act may
be remitted in such manner and to such extent, and by such authority, as may from time to time be
prescribed.
67. Provision for dependants of prisoner of war from his remitted deductions and pay and
allowances.–(1) In the case of all persons subject to this Act, being prisoners of war, whose pay and
allowances have been forfeited under clause (h) of sub-section (1) or clause (a) of sub-section (2) of
section 61 but in respect of whom a remission has been made under section 66, it shall be lawful for the
Central Government or the Director-General, when so authorised by the Central Government, to make
provisions in respect of pay and allowances for any dependants of such persons and any such remission
shall in that case be deemed to apply only to the balance thereafter remaining of such pay and allowances.
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(2) It shall be lawful for the Central Government or the Director General, when so authorised by the
Central Government, to make provisions for any dependants of any person subject to this Act who is a
prisoner of war, or is missing, in respect of his pay and allowances.
68. Period during which a person is deemed to be a prisoner of war.–For the purposes of section
67, a person shall be deemed to continue to be a prisoner of war until the conclusion of any inquiry into
his conduct such as is referred to in section 65 and if he is dismissed from the service in consequence of
such conduct, until the date of such dismissal.