Section 211: Deductions from pay for maintenance of wife or child

(1) Where the Forces Council or an officer authorised by it is satisfied that a person subject to service law under this Act is neglecting, without reasonable cause, to maintain his wife or his child under the age of eighteen years, the Forces Council or officer may order such sum to be deducted from his pay and appropriated towards the maintenance of his wife or child as the Forces Council or officer thinks fit.
(2) On an application made to the Forces Council or an officer authorised by it, the Forces Council or officer may, if satisfied that a prima facie case has been made out for the making of an order under subsection (1) of this section, make an interim order for the deduction and appropriation as is mentioned in that subsection pending the further examination of the case.
(3) Where an order is in force under subsection (1) or (3) of section 210 of this Act for the making of deductions in favour of a person from the pay of a person subject to service law, no deductions from his pay in favour of the same person shall be ordered under subsection (1) or (2) of this section unless the person subject to service law is in the place where the variation of the order of the Court in consequence of which the order under section 210 was made.
(4) The Forces Council or an officer authorised by it may by order vary or revoke any order previously made under this section, and may treat an order made under this section as being suspended at any time while the person against whom the order was made is absent as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 205 of this Act.
(5) The power to make an order under this section for the deduction of any sum and its appropriation towards the maintenance of a child shall include power-
(a) subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, to make an order after the child has attained the age of eighteen years, if an order in favour of the child is in force under subsection (1) or (3) of section 210 of this Act; or
(b) to make an order after the child has attained the age of eighteen years if-
(i) an order of the Court as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section 210 was in force in favour of the child at the time when the child attained that age;
(ii) the person from whose pay the deductions are ordered is in the place mentioned in subsection (3) of this section; and
(iii) the child is for the time being engaged in a course of education or training; or
(c) to continue an order, from time to time, after the child has attained the age of eighteen years, if the child is for the time being engaged in a course of education or training,
but no order so made or continued shall remain in force after the child attains the age of twenty-one years or shall, unless continued under paragraph (c) of this subsection, remain in force for more than two years.