Army Act, 1950 Section 90

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 ever)' 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-martial¹[***] 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 by²[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 Government³[or any prescribed officer] 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.

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1 . The words "or an officer exercising authority under section 85 " omitted by Act 37 of 1992 , sec. 7 (w .e.f . 6 - 9 - 1992 ).

2 . Substituted b y Act 19 of 1955 , sec. 2 and Sch., for "the Commander-in-Chief."

3 . Inserted b y Act 37 of 1992 , sec. 7 (w .e.f . 6 - 9 - 1992 ).