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REGIMENTAL DEBTS ACT 1893 - SECT 23

Application of Act to deserters, &c.

23. Where a person subject to military law deserts, or is absent without leave
for twenty-one days, [or, in consequence of a conviction by or before a court
of ordinary criminal jurisdiction, is sentenced to death or is imprisoned or
detained to serve a sentence of three months or more] ... the provisions of
this Act shall apply as if the person were dead, subject to the following
modifications:

(1)The powers of the committee of adjustment shall arise and continue
notwithstanding that the preferential charges are paid or secured:

(2)The committee of adjustment shall dispose of the surplus in the prescribed
manner, and the same when so disposed of shall be free from all claim on the
part of the said person or any one claiming through him.

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