(1) For the purpose of these regulations, a day’s pay shall include full pay and allowances but shall not include hair-cutting allowance and kit up keep allowance.
(2) The scale of mulcts shall not apply to sailors who desert and who are consequently marked ‘Run’ on the books.
(3) Mulcts of pay for leave breaking and for drunkenness on leave shall be debited against the offender’s account in one sum, calculated at the rate of pay in force on the date of sentence, as modified by such sentence in case reduction to lower rank, deprivation of badges and the sum so debited shall be regarded as a definite fine for the offence, and shall not subsequently be altered, as 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.
(4) The provision of sub-regulation (3) shall not apply to forfeiture of pay during confinement in cells.