Singapore legislation
Section 195
Section 195
Supplemental provisions as to deductions from ordinary pay
(1)
Any sum authorised by this Act to be deducted from the ordinary pay of a serviceman may, without affecting any other mode of recovering the sum, be deducted from the ordinary pay or from any sums due to the serviceman, in such manner, and when deducted or recovered may be appropriated in such manner, as may be directed by any regulations made under this Act or order of the Armed Forces Council.
(2)
Subject to the following provisions, any regulations made under this Act or order may declare what is, for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to deductions from pay, deemed to constitute a day of absence or a day of imprisonment, special detention or detention:
no person may be treated as absent, imprisoned, specially detained or detained, for those purposes, unless the absence, imprisonment, special detention or detention has lasted for at least 6 hours, except where the absence prevented the absentee from fulfilling any military duty;
a period of absence, imprisonment, special detention or detention which starts before and ends after midnight may be reckoned as a day;
the number of days must be reckoned as from the time when the absence, imprisonment, special detention or detention starts; and
no period of less than 24 hours may be reckoned as more than one day.
(3)
In cases of doubt as to the proper issue of pay or the proper deduction from pay due to any serviceman, the pay may be withheld until the order of the Armed Forces Council respecting it has been made.