Singapore legislation
Clause 18
Clause 18
Fraudulent enlistment
(1)
Every person subject to military law who —
when belonging to any Commonwealth force without having obtained a regular discharge therefrom or otherwise fulfilled the conditions enabling him to enlist or enrol, enlists or enrols himself in the Singapore armed forces; or
when belonging to the Singapore armed forces without having fulfilled the conditions enabling him to enlist, enrol or enter, enrols himself, or enlists in any Commonwealth force,shall be deemed to have been guilty of fraudulent enlistment, and shall be liable on conviction by court-martial, to suffer imprisonment or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned:Provided that in the case of a first offence a person shall not be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term exceeding two years.
(2)
Where an offender has fraudulently enlisted on several occasions he may, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to belong to any one or more of the corps to which he has been appointed or transferred, as well as to the corps to which he properly belongs; and it shall be lawful to charge an offender with any number of offences against this section at the same time, and to give evidence of such offences against him, and if he be convicted thereof to punish him accordingly; and further it shall be lawful on conviction of a person for two or more of such offences to award him the higher punishment allowed by this section for a second offence as if he had been convicted by a previous court-martial of one of such offences.
(3)
Where an offender is convicted of the offence of fraudulent enlistment, then for the purposes of his liability under this section to the higher punishment for a second offence, the offence of deserting or attempting to desert from the Singapore armed forces may be reckoned as a previous offence of fraudulent enlistment under this section, with this exception, that the absence of the offender next before any fraudulent enlistment shall not upon his conviction for that fraudulent enlistment be reckoned as a previous offence of deserting or attempting to desert.