P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 2655
(a) Unless otherwise provided in the regulations that the Governor may promulgate, a sentence of a court-martial of an enlisted man with a rate of pay of over E-1 or its equivalent, as approved by the convening authority, which includes:
(1) Dishonorable or bad conduct discharge;
(2) confinement, or
(3) hard labor without confinement,
shall reduce such member to the rate of pay of E-1 or its equivalent, effective on the date of said approval.
(b) If the sentence of a member whose rate of pay has been reduced under subsection (a) of this section is rendered ineffective or disapproved, or as finally approved, does not include any punishment mentioned in its three (3) clauses, the rights and privileges of which he has been deprived on account of such reduction shall be restored to him and he shall be entitled to his pay and allowances to which he would have been entitled to during the period in which the reduction was in effect, such as if it had not been reduced.
History —June 23, 1969, No. 62, p. 117, § 1104, eff. 90 days after June 23, 1969.