Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) In this regulation:
"court" includes a court of a foreign country.
"foreign country" includes a state, province or similar division of a foreign country.
"offence" means an offence against any law other than the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 and includes an offence against the law of a foreign country.
(2)
Where a member charged with an offence is ordered by a court to
pay an amount as a fine or other pecuniary penalty or
as damages, reparation,
compensation or costs and the Commonwealth pays the whole or part of that
amount, the amount so paid is a debt due and payable by the member to the
Commonwealth.
(3) Without
affecting the right of the Commonwealth to recover
by any other means a debt
payable by a member under subregulation (2), an amount equal to the amount of
that debt may be deducted from any salary or allowances payable to the member.