31. Payment of Salary after Suspension.

Unless it shall be otherwise specially ordered by the Governor in Council, if any officer be suspended pending the investigation of any complaint or accusation against him, and he be afterwards dismissed from the Service, he shall receive no salary or pay from the date of his suspension; and, if he be reduced, the reduced rate of salary or pay shall take effect from the date of his suspension; and, if he be fully acquitted of the charges made against him he shall receive arrears of pay in full from the date of his suspension.