(1) Every officer who is found guilty by a Naval tribunal of absence without leave or improperly leaving his ship or place of duty shall be punished with each mulcts of pay and allowances at the rate of one day’s mulcts for each day’s absence or part thereof, in addition to any other punishment otherwise awarded by the Naval tribunal.
(2) For the purpose of these regulations a day’s pay shall include full pay and allowances but shall not include kit-up-keep allowance.
(3) The scale of mulcts shall not apply to officers who are found guilty of desertion.
(4) Mulcts of pay and allowances shall be debited against the officer’s account in one lump sum as modified by such sentence in case of forfeiture of seniority and the sum so debited shall be regarded as a definite fine for the offence and, shall not subsequently be altered as and when an increase of pay is granted with retrospective effect, or when an offender may be credited with the balance of the increased emoluments for days upon which he would otherwise have been mulcted in full.
(5) The provisions of sub-regulation (1) to (4) above shall not apply to officers who are only absent from a part of their ship.
(6) Calculation of period of absence:- (i) The period of improper absence included in the charge shall strictly be computed from the time when leave expires (or the time of breaking out) until the time of return to the ship or place of duty.
(ii) When an officer surrenders, or is apprehended as an absentee away from his ship or place of duty or the locally in which his leave expires, the Commanding Officer may, having regard to the circumstances, consider the absence as having terminated at the time of such surrender or apprehension.
(iii) When an absentee is arrested by the civil authority on another charge and is subsequently handed over to the Naval authority, his absence without leave shall be regarded as ceasing from the time of his arrest by the civil authority.