Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Civil Defence and Other Matters Bill

Clause 11

Amendment of section 19

Section 19 of the Civil Defence Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) Subject to subsection (3), a person is not liable to be tried by a disciplinary officer for a service offence unless the trial begins within 3 years after the later of the following dates:

(a)

the date on which the service offence was alleged to have been committed; (b)the date on which information relating to the commission of that offence was first reported to or discovered by an investigating officer for that service offence.”.