Clause 78

Officers of the Singapore armed forces shall be commissioned by the President and such commission shall not be deemed to be vacated by the death or retirement from the office of the President by whom it was issued.

The President may commission an officer for a specified period:Provided that the President on the recommendation of the Army Board may extend such commission for any longer period as he thinks it expedient.

Such commission shall be in the prescribed form.

The President may, with or without assigning any reason therefor, cancel any such commission.

Officers commissioned under subsection (1) and officers in pay as officers of the Singapore armed forces shall be deemed to have been officers of the Singapore armed forces as from the dates specified in their commissions or from the dates on which pay as officers of the Singapore armed forces first began to accrue due to them, whichever is the earlier.

Honorary commissions in the Singapore armed forces may be granted by the President to such persons as he may consider fit.

Officers may from time to time be promoted or advanced in rank by the President at his discretion.