Singapore legislation
Clause 70
Clause 70
Provisions as to persons unlawfully at large
(1)
Any person who, having been sentenced by a court-martial to imprisonment, is at large may (without prejudice to any other power of arrest) be arrested by any police officer without warrant and taken to any place in which he may be required in accordance with law to be detained.
(2)
Where any person sentenced by a court-martial to imprisonment, or sentenced by a court-martial or by his commanding officer to detention, has become at large at any time during the period for which he is liable to be detained in pursuance of the sentence, then, unless the authority hereinafter specified otherwise directs, no account shall be taken, in calculating the period for which he is liable to be so detained, of any time elapsing after he became at large and before either he is taken into military custody or he is received into custody (whether in pursuance of the same sentence or of a sentence of any other court) in a prison or other institution.
(3)
The authority referred to in subsection (2) is —
in relation to a person sentenced by court-martial, the authority which under subsection (2) of section 63 has power to remit the sentence;
in relation to a person sentenced by his commanding officer, that officer.