Singapore legislation

Clause 16

of Singapore Armed Forces (Amendment) Bill

Clause 16

Repeal and re-enactment of section 115

Section 115 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: —“Suspension of sentence115.—

(1)

The following provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to the suspension of a sentence of imprisonment or special detention in a disciplinary barrack or detention passed by a subordinate military court or by a disciplinary officer.(2) It shall be lawful for a subordinate military court or a disciplinary officer when passing a sentence of imprisonment or special detention in a disciplinary barrack or detention to order that the sentence shall be suspended and the accused shall not in that event be committed to prison or disciplinary barrack or detention barrack.(3) Where any such sentence is suspended and the offender so sentenced is sentenced for a fresh offence during the period of suspension —

(a)

by a subordinate military court to imprisonment or special detention in a disciplinary barrack or to detention; or

(b)

by a disciplinary officer to detention,then the court or the disciplinary officer may cancel the suspension of the earlier sentence and the court or the disciplinary officer shall direct whether the two sentences are to run concurrently or consecutively.”.

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