Clause 15

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, a person serving a sentence of special detention in a disciplinary barrack who is found after due inquiry to be guilty of an aggravated disciplinary barrack offence may be punished by the officer-in-charge of a disciplinary barrack with caning not exceeding twelve strokes.(2) The officer-in-charge of a disciplinary barrack shall not award any caning without the approval of the Armed Forces Council.(3) For the purposes of this section, an aggravated disciplinary barrack offence is —

mutiny as defined in section 14 of this Act;

escape or attempt to escape;

striking or otherwise using violence to, or offering violence to, any person superior in rank or on the staff of the disciplinary barrack;

aggravated or repeated assault on any other person serving special detention in a disciplinary barrack;

wilful destruction of Singapore Armed Forces property;

wilfully causing self-illness, self-injury or disability;

wilfully making a false or groundless complaint against any person superior in rank or on the staff of the disciplinary barrack;

repetition of any minor disciplinary barrack offence after having been twice punished for such minor offence;

any other act of gross misconduct or insubordination; or

abetting the commission of any aggravated disciplinary barrack offence.(4) Minor disciplinary barrack offences shall be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.(5) When any caning is imposed under this section upon any person serving a sentence of special detention in a disciplinary barrack he shall not be liable to more than one such sentence in respect of the act or acts, or omission or omissions, for which he has been sentenced.”.