Clause 197

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

ranks of servicemen;

powers of commanders;

powers of disciplinary officers;

procedure and practice in summary trials;

powers and duties of military policemen;

arrests and searches and investigation of offences;

payments, deductions, forfeitures, pensions and gratuities;

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

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

boards of inquiry;

military decorations;

military funerals and burials at sea;

the military prisons or detention barracks in which persons may be required to serve the whole or any part of military sentences of imprisonment and detention passed on them under this Act;

the committal of persons under military sentences of imprisonment or detention to military prisons or detention barracks, their removal from one place to another or from one form of custody to another and their release on the coming to an end of any term of imprisonment or detention;

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

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

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

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

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