Regulation 8

any period during which the member is a military expert, an officer or a soldier in regular service on full pay in the Singapore Armed Forces;

any period of full-time national service which has been rendered by the member prior to his enlistment as a military expert in the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces;

any period of service as a mobilised volunteer or national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force which qualifies the member for an award of a pension under the Pensions Act 1956 and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations upon the member being absorbed into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces;

any period of mobilised service as a volunteer or national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force which is rendered by the member immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service, if that service had not been regarded as regular service under sub-paragraph (c);

where the member is seconded to the Singapore Armed Forces, any period of service rendered immediately prior to his secondment which qualifies the member for the award of a pension in the Government or in any statutory body, and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations on his absorption into the regular service as a military expert;

any period of service on secondment to the Singapore Armed Forces of the member which is rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service as a military expert, if that service has not been regarded as regular service under sub-paragraph (e);

any period of service which the member has rendered on contract in the Singapore Armed Forces prior to his conversion to the regular service;

any period of service in any other armed forces which the Armed Forces Council may allow to be regarded as reckonable service, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose;

any period of confinement as a prisoner of war;

any period of pensionable service in the Government of the member which is rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations, if that member had been a full-time national serviceman;

any period during which the member has been absent from duty on leave with half-pay;

any period of part-time regular service, but to be counted on the basis of the proportion the part-time regular service bears to full-time regular service over the same period;

any period of service in the Government of the member which is rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which the Armed Forces Council has determined shall be regarded as regular service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose; and

any period of service other than in the Government which the Armed Forces Council has determined shall be regarded as regular service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose.