Skip to content
laws.sgby aturio
In forceAmended2020 Revised Edition
Contents

Part 7 · Miscellaneous Provisions

27. Release and unaccountable periods

Feedback & support
Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2024. 2 amendments in all.

(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 —

(a)

any period before the day on which he reported for enlistment or for national service;

(b)

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 under any written law or reformative training;

(d)

any period during which he was under close arrest or civil custody on a charge for an offence of which he was subsequently convicted by a subordinate military court or a civil court or at summary trial;

(e)

any period during which he was —

(i)

serving a term of imprisonment or other detention outside Singapore;

(ii)

held in custody in a jurisdiction outside Singapore; or

(iii)

prevented by any authority or court in a jurisdiction outside Singapore from returning to Singapore;

(f)

any period during which he was on leave of absence that was authorised by the proper authority and for which he did not receive any service remuneration as defined in section 24(7);

(g)

any period during which he was on medical leave which was subsequently rescinded by the medical officer or medical practitioner who issued the medical certificate for the medical leave or by any other authority appointed by the relevant proper authority; or

(h)

any period of such duration or description, or during which the person was subject to such circumstances, as may be prescribed.

(3)

In this section —

“civil court” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972;

“civil custody” means any custody that does not fall within the definition of “military custody” in section 2(1) of the Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972 and includes the following:

(a)

custody after arrest;

(b)

custody on remand by a civil court;

(c)

custody when bail is revoked;

(d)

custody or detention authorised under any written law;

“summary trial” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972.

Report

Read on from s 28