Singapore legislation
Clause 188
Clause 188
Supplemental provisions as to deductions from ordinary pay
(1)
Any sum authorised by this Act to be deducted from the ordinary pay of a serviceman may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovering the same, be deducted from the ordinary pay or from any sums due to such serviceman, in such manner, and when deducted or recovered may be appropriated in such manner, as may from time to time be directed by any regulations or order of the Armed Forces Council.
(2)
Any such regulations or order may from time to time declare what shall be deemed for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to deductions from pay to constitute a day of absence or a day of imprisonment or detention, so, however, that —
no person shall be treated as absent, imprisoned or detained, for the purposes aforesaid, unless the absence, imprisonment or detention has lasted six hours or upwards, except where the absence prevented the absentee from fulfilling any military duty;
a period of absence, imprisonment or detention which commences before and ends after midnight may be reckoned as a day;
the number of days shall be reckoned as from the time when the absence, imprisonment or detention commences; and
no period of less than twenty-four hours shall be reckoned as more than one day.
(3)
In cases of doubt as to the proper issue of pay or the proper deduction from pay due to any serviceman, the pay may be withheld until the order of the Armed Forces Council respecting it has been made.