10 U.S.C. § 858a : US Code - Section 858A: Art. 58a. Sentences: reduction in enlisted grade upon approval

Search 10 U.S.C. § 858a : US Code - Section 858A: Art. 58a. Sentences: reduction in enlisted grade upon approval

(a) Unless otherwise provided in regulations to be prescribed by
the Secretary concerned, a court-martial sentence of an enlisted
member in a pay grade above E-1, as approved by the convening
authority, that includes -
(1) a dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge;
(2) confinement; or
(3) hard labor without confinement;
reduces that member to pay grade E-1, effective on the date of that
approval.
(b) If the sentence of a member who is reduced in pay grade under
subsection (a) is set aside or disapproved, or, as finally
approved, does not include any punishment named in subsection
(a)(1), (2), or (3), the rights and privileges of which he was
deprived because of that reduction shall be restored to him and he
is entitled to the pay and allowances to which he would have been
entitled, for the period the reduction was in effect, had he not
been so reduced.