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Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Punishments of Military Offences and Execution of Sentences

120. Suspension of sentence

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(1)

Subsections (2) and (3) have effect in relation to the suspension of a sentence of imprisonment or special detention in a disciplinary barrack or detention passed by a subordinate military court or by a disciplinary officer.

(2)

It is lawful for a subordinate military court or a disciplinary officer when passing a sentence of imprisonment or special detention in a disciplinary barrack or detention to order that the sentence must be suspended and the accused must not in that event be committed to prison or disciplinary barrack or detention barrack.

(3)

Where any such sentence is suspended and the offender so sentenced is sentenced for a fresh offence during the period of suspension —

(a)

by a subordinate military court to imprisonment or special detention in a disciplinary barrack or to detention; or

(b)

by a disciplinary officer to detention,then the court or the disciplinary officer may cancel the suspension of the earlier sentence and the court or the disciplinary officer has to direct whether the 2 sentences are to run concurrently or consecutively.