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, imprisonment or detention which commences before and ends after
midnight may be reckoned as a day.
93. 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
sections 90 and 91.
94. Limit of certain deductions. The total deductions from the pay and allowances of a person
made under clauses (d) to (g) and clause (i) of section 90, and clauses (e) and (g) to (i) of section 91
shall not, except where he is sentenced to dismissal, exceed in any one month one‑half of his pay and
allowances for that month.
95. 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.
96. 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 1[Chief of the Air Staff] 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.
97. Remission of deductions. Any deduction from pay and allow ances 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.
1 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975 Art. 2 and Sch., for “CommanderinChief”.
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