Section 27
Release and unaccountable periods
(1)
Subject to this Act, a national serviceman or a regular serviceman shall be released by the proper authority at the end of the period which he is liable to serve.
(2)
In computing the period of service of any person referred to in subsection (1), no account shall be taken of —
any period before the day on which he reported for enlistment or for national service;
any period of absence from duty without leave or desertion where he was convicted therefor; (c)any period during which he was serving or would have been serving, if he were not unlawfully at large, a term of imprisonment, special detention, detention or reformative training; or
any period during which he was under close arrest on a charge for an offence of which he was subsequently convicted by a subordinate military court, a disciplinary officer or a Senior Disciplinary Committee.
(3)
In this section —
Definition
“disciplinary officer” has the same meaning as in the Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972;
Definition
“Senior Disciplinary Committee” means a Senior Disciplinary Committee appointed under section 72 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972.