Singapore legislation
Clause 3
Clause 3
Amendment of section 20
Section 20 of the Enlistment Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsections:“(4) Subject to subsection (5), where a regular serviceman is sentenced by a subordinate military court to a discharge with ignominy or dismissal, he shall be deemed to be discharged from regular service on the occurrence of any of the following events:
where no petition of review or appeal has been lodged, the expiration of the time limited for the lodging of such petition; or
where a petition of review or appeal has been lodged, the confirmation of the sentence by the reviewing authority or the Military Court of Appeal, as the case may be.(5) The discharge of a regular serviceman under subsection (4) shall take effect from the date of the sentence by reason of which he is discharged or from such other date as may be specified by the subordinate military court.(6) In this section —“Military Court of Appeal” means the Court established under Part VII of the Singapore Armed Forces Act (Cap. 295);“reviewing authority” means the reviewing authority referred to in section 116(1) of the Singapore Armed Forces Act.”.