Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

Marginal note:Pay and allowances

• 22 (1) The Treasury Board shall establish the pay and allowances to be paid to members.

• Marginal note:Reduction in pay where demotion

  (1.1) Where, pursuant to this Act, a member is demoted, the rate of pay of that member shall be reduced to the highest rate of pay for the rank or level to which the member is demoted that does not exceed the member’s rate of pay at the time of the demotion.

• Marginal note:Stoppage of pay and allowances

  (2) The Commissioner may direct that a member’s pay and allowances be stopped if

  • (a) the Commissioner is of the opinion that the member

    • (i) is unable to perform their duties as the result of the loss of a basic requirement, as set out in the rules, for the carrying out of a member’s duties,

    • (ii) is absent from duty without authorization, or

    • (iii) has left any assigned duty without authorization;

  • (b) the Commissioner has suspended the member from duty under section 12; or

  • (c) the member is a Deputy Commissioner who is the subject of a recommendation made under paragraph 20.2(1)(d), (f), (h) or (j).

• Marginal note:Imprisonment

  (3) For the purpose of paragraph (2)(a), being absent from duty without authorization includes being detained in custody or serving a period of imprisonment.