Singapore legislation

Section 205

of Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972

Section 205

Regulations

Amended by28/2009

The Armed Forces Council may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters:

(a)

the government, administration and organisation of the Singapore Armed Forces;

(b)

ranks of servicemen in the uniformed services (including the military domain experts service);

(c)

service grades of regular servicemen in the non-uniformed service, including the designation of grades as officer grades;

(d)

powers of commanders;

(e)

powers of disciplinary officers;

(f)

procedure and practice in summary trials;

(g)

powers and duties of military policemen;

(h)

arrests and searches and investigation of offences;

(i)

payments, deductions, forfeitures, pensions, gratuities and other allowances;

(j)

terms and conditions of service of servicemen including classes or categories of serviceman and periods of service;

(k)

terms and conditions of service of the president of the Military Court of Appeal and the registrar thereof;

(l)

committees of inquiry appointed under section 8C;

(m)

boards of inquiry;

(n)

military decorations;

(o)

military funerals and burials at sea;

(p)

military prisons, disciplinary barracks and detention barracks;

(q)

the committal of persons under military sentences of imprisonment, special detention or detention to military prisons, disciplinary barracks or detention barracks (as the case may be), their removal from one place to another or from one form of custody to another and their release when their terms of imprisonment, special detention or detention have ended;

(r)

the provision, classification, regulation and management of military prisons, disciplinary barracks and detention barracks;

(s)

the classification, treatment, employment, discipline and control of persons serving military sentences of imprisonment, special detention or detention or in military custody;

(t)

the temporary release on compassionate grounds of persons serving such sentences in military prisons, disciplinary barracks or detention barracks, the cases in which, periods for which and conditions subject to which they may be allowed out of any of those places and the remission of part of any such sentence for good conduct and industry;

(u)

the appointment, powers and duties of inspectors, visitors and members of the staff of military prisons, disciplinary barracks and detention barracks;

(v)

the establishment, maintenance and application of a fund to be known as the Singapore Armed Forces Central Welfare Fund;

(w)

the appointment, release, discharge and terms and conditions of service of volunteers;

(x)

the exclusion or variation of the operation of the provisions of this Act in relation to non-uniformed servicemen;

(y)

in relation to any rank referred to in any provision of the Act, the designation of a corresponding service grade in the non-uniformed service for the purpose of that provision; and

(z)

all other matters which the Armed Forces Council considers necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act.

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