Singapore legislation
Section 89
Section 89
Deductions from ordinary pay of member
(1)
Subject to subsection (2), the following deductions may, or if the regulations so provide must, be made from the ordinary pay due to a member:
all ordinary pay —
for every day of absence on desertion or without leave, or for overstaying the period for which leave of absence is granted;
for every day of imprisonment, corrective training, preventive detention, reformative training or detention of any other description, to which the member is liable in consequence of an order or sentence of a court;
for every day of detention imposed by a disciplinary officer under section 75;
for every day during which the member is in a drug rehabilitation centre;
for every day during which the member is in hospital on account of sickness certified by the proper medical officer attending to the member at the hospital to have been caused by a service offence committed by the member;
the sum required to make good any compensation which a disciplinary officer has in exercise of the powers conferred by section 75(4) ordered the member to pay to any person;
the sum to make good any compensation which a disciplinary officer has under section 75(5) ordered the member to pay to the Government;
the sum required to pay any fine or penalty which a disciplinary officer before which the member has been charged with a service offence has ordered the member to pay; and
the sum which the member is required to pay as contribution to the Government pursuant to an order made under section 92(3).
(2)
The total amount of deductions from the ordinary pay due to a member in respect of the sums referred to in subsection (1) must not exceed such sums as will leave to the member less than $5 a day.
(3)
A member must not be subjected to any deduction greater than the sums which he or she has been ordered to pay to make good the loss or damage.