S.L. 260.3 Art. 103Disciplinary procedures and fines.

(1) A prison officer who commits an offence against discipline shall be subject to such disciplinary proceedings as may be taken against him in pursuance of powers conferred by or under the Constitution of Malta.

(2) All fines imposed in respect of offences against discipline shall be recovered by stoppage from the offender’s pay due or to become due and the amount so recovered shall not exceed in the aggregate in any week one-seventh of the weekly pay of the offender except in the event of the offender leaving the prison service, when the whole amount of any fine then unpaid may be deducted from any pay then due.