Section 90:
Deductions from pay and allowances of officers.
The following penal deductions may be
made from the pay and allowances of an officer, that is to say,--
(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 his commanding officer and has been approved by the
Central Government;
(b) all pay and allowances for every day while he is in custody or under suspension from duty on
a charge for an offence for which he is afterwards convicted by a criminal court or a court-martial or
by an officer exercising authority under section 83 or section 84;
(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 court- martial
by whom he is convicted of such offence, or by an officer exercising authority under section 83 or
section 84;
(e) all pay and allowances ordered by a court-martial 1
* * * to be forfeited or stopped;
(f) any sum required to pay a fine awarded by a criminal court or a court-martial exercising
jurisdiction under section 69;
(g) any sum required to make good any loss, damage, or destruction of public or regimental
property which, after due investigation, appears to the Central Government 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 2[the Chief of the Army Staff] 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 3[or any prescribed officers] to be paid
for the maintenance of his wife or his legitimate or illegitimate child or towards the cost of any relief
given by the said Government to the said wife or child.
Notes:
1. The words and figures "or an officer exercising authority under section 85" omitted by Act 37 of 1992, s. 7.
2. Subs. by Act 19 of 1955, s. 2 and the Schedule, for "the Commander- in-Chief".
3. Ins. by Act 37 of 1992, s. 7.