Singapore legislation
Clause 10
Clause 10
Amendment of section 188
Subsection (2) of section 188 of the principal Act is hereby deleted and the following substituted therefor: —“(2) Subject to the following provisions, any such regulations or orders may from time to time declare what shall, for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to deductions from pay, be deemed to constitute a day of absence or a day of imprisonment, special detention or detention: —
no person shall be treated as absent, imprisoned, specially detained or detained, for those purposes, unless the absence, imprisonment, special detention or detention has lasted for at least six hours, except where the absence prevented the absentee from fulfilling any military duty;
a period of absence, imprisonment, special detention 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, special detention or detention commences; and
no period of less than twenty-four hours shall be reckoned as more than one day.”.