Singapore legislation

Clause 15

of Singapore Army Bill

Clause 15

Insubordination

Every person subject to military law who —

(a)

being concerned in any quarrel, fray, or disorder, refuses to obey any officer (though of inferior rank) who orders him into arrest, or strikes or uses or offers violence to any such officer;

(b)

strikes or uses or offers violence to any person, whether subject to military law or not, in whose custody he is placed, and whether he is or is not his superior officer;

(c)

resists an escort whose duty it is to apprehend him or to have him in charge; or

(d)

being a soldier, breaks out of barracks, camp or quarters,shall be liable on conviction by court-martial, if an officer, to be cashiered, or to suffer such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned, and if a soldier, to suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.