(h) any sum required to pay a fine awarded by a Criminal Court, a Court martial exercising
jurisdiction under section 59 or an officer exercising authority under section 23 ;
(i) any sum which a Criminal Court, the 1[Federal Government] or any prescribed officer
orders him to pay for the maintenance of his wife or his child, legitimate or illegitimate:
Provided that the total deductions from the pay and allowances of a person under clauses (e), (g),
(h) or (i) shall not, except where he is sentenced to dismissal, exceed in any one month onehalf of his
pay and allowances for that month.
Explanation.___For the purposes of clauses (a) and (b) :
(i) no person shall be treated as absent or in custody unless the absence or custody has lasted
for six hours or upwards (except where the absence or custody prevents the absentee
from fulfilling any military duty which is thereby thrown on some other person) ;
(ii) absence or custody for six consecutive hours or upwards, whether wholly in one day or
partly in one day and partly in another may be reckoned as absence or custody for a day ;
(iii) absence or custody for twenty‑four consecutive hours or up ward 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;
(iv) for the purposes of this explanation “custody” includes custody on a charge
1 Subs. by the Pakistan Army (Amdt.) 1973 (51 of 1973), s. 3, for “Central Government”.
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